Eremias grammica (Lichtenstein, 1823)

LECTOTYPE. ZMB 1095, designated by Szczerbak (1974).

TYPE LOCALITY. “...östlich vom Aralsee...Karakum und Kisilkum” [= East of the Aral Sea, Karakum, and Kyzyl-Kum, Turkmenistan]; lectotype from Karakum, Turkmenistan .

DISTRIBUTION. NE Iran, Central Asian republics, W China. The distribution of E. grammica seems virtually identical to those of E. intermedia, E. lineolata, and E. scripta (Sindaco & Jeremčenko 2008) .

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 93. Restricted to NE Iran to an area by the Afghan borders and just S of the Kopet Dagh.

HABITAT. Sand dunes and still-loose sands with psammophilous vegetation ( Haloxylon, Tamarix).

REMARKS. Closely related to E. pleskei from S Transcaucasia and NW Iran (Pyron et al. 2013).

REFERENCES. Szczerbak (1974); Anderson (1999); Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2012c).