Calotes wangi, Huang & Li & Wang & Li & Hou & Cai, 2023

Huang, Yong, Li, Hongyu, Wang, Yilin, Li, Maojin, Hou, Mian & Cai, Bo, 2023, Taxonomic review of the Calotes versicolor complex (Agamidae, Sauria, Squamata) in China, with description of a new species and subspecies, ZooKeys 1187, pp. 63-89 : 63

Calotes wangi sp. nov.

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Calotes versicolor : Smith 1935: 189-193 in S. China and Hainan; Zhao and Adler 1993: 189 excluding W. Yunnan; Deng and Ye 1996, 1997; Zhao et al. 1999: 97-110 excluding W. Yunnan; Liu 2000; Cai et al. 2015 excluding W. Yunnan; Ge et al. 2018; Wang et al. 2021 excluding W. Yunnan; Cai et al. 2022a excluding W. Yunnan; Hu et al. 2022.

Type material.

Holotype. Adult male, CIB119358 (filed number GXUCM-H202291534). Collected from Daming Montains, Wuming District, Nanning City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China (23.52654°N, 108.342559°E, 326 m a. s. l.) by Yong Huang in September 2022.

Allotype. Adult female, CIB119359 (filed number GXUCM-H202291533), with the same locality and collector information as the holotype.

Paratypes. Adult males (GXUCM-H201604082-4, H201604086-87, GXUCM-H2022091535-36) and adult females (GXUCM-H201604085, H2022091538), with the same locality and collector information as the holotype.

Other examined specimens.

China, 1. Guangdong Province, Xuwen (1♂), Yangchun (3♂, 2♀), Luoding (2♂, 3♀), Xinyi (3♂, 2♀). 2. Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Bama (3♂, 2♀), Yinhai (1♂, 2♀), Weizhou island (13♂, 6♀), Cenxi (3♂, 1♀), Gangkou (1♂, 2♀), Shiwandashan (1♂), Guigang (13♂, 6♀), Lingyun (1♂, 3♀), Longzhou (1♀), Longan (3♂, 3♀), Xingning (1♂, 2♀), Pingxiang(1♂), Qinnan (5♂, 5♀), Rong County (3♂, 2♀), Shanglin (3♂), Tiandeng (1♂, 3♀), Tianyang (1♂), Wanxiu- (1♂, 3♀). 3. Hainan Province, Changjiang (4♂, 11♀), Chengmai (2♂), Ding’an (1♀), Dongfang (7♂, 5♀), Haikou (2♀), Ledong (6♂, 11♀), Sanya (4♂, 4♀), Tunchang (1♂), Qiongzhong (8♂, 5♀), Wuzhishan (4♂, 7♀). 4. Fujian Province, Jin’an (2 subadults). 5. Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (1 subadult). Vietnam: Lang Son Province (1♂, 1♀).

Description of holotype.

Adult male, medium-sized body, SVL 96.40 mm, trunk length 49.82 mm, head length 24.29 mm, head depth 13.18 mm, head width 15.42 mm, interorbital width 9.47 mm, snout width 5.87 mm, eye-ear length 5.97 mm, eye diameter 8.56 mm, naris-eye length 4.58 mm, jaw width 16.14 mm, snout-eye length 8.82 mm, snout-forelimb length 32.65 mm, tail length 256.15 mm, finger IV length 14.10 mm, toe IV length 19.04 mm, upper arm length 15.80 mm, lower arm length 14.34 mm, upper leg length 21.94 mm, crus length 16.87 mm, forelimb length 46.03 mm, hind limb length 73.17 mm, when hind limbs adpressed forward to reach between eyes and tympanum.

Supralabial scale count 10:11, infralabial scale count 10:11, nasal-supralabial scale rows 1:1, suborbital scale rows 3:3, gular scale count 30, ventral scale count 48, finger IV subdigital lamellae count 20:21, toe IV subdigital lamellae count 25:25, post-tympanic scale count 3:3, post-occipital scale count 3:2, vertebral scales 42, mid-body scale rows 42, dorsal eyelid scales 13:13, scales between anterior chin-shield 1, scales between nasal shield and orbit 5:5, state of scales on side of neck and adjacent shoulder area pointing obliquely upward, keels on these scales are weakly to strongly developed, nuchal and dorsal crest scales short, nuchal crest scales significantly larger than dorsal crest scales, dorsal crest shortens progressively before mid-body, gular fold and fold in front of the shoulder are absent, moderate to large scales in front of forelimb insertion, postorbital spine absent, scales on side of trunk point obliquely upward.

Under stress, the color is khaki (240,230,140) or dark khaki (189,183,107) with pale gray (105,105,105) markings, three black (0,0,0) transverse stripes on top of head, nine blank radial stripes around eyes, throat coloration burly wood (222,184,135) with blank throat stripes, inner-lip coloration is white-smoke (245,245,245), oral cavity coloration is pale flesh (239, 205, 197), tongue coloration is orange (255,165,0), ventral body coloration tan (210,180,140) with dark stripes, presence of dark line on vent midline from throat to pelvis, seven dark khaki bands on dorsum of trunk between axilla and inguen, 7-8 dark khaki fore- and hindlimb cross-bands, striping ventrally on trunk continuous striping, 22 tail cross-bands (the front 9 bands are black and the rear 13 bands are brown [165, 42, 42]).

Etymology.

The species name wangi is named after Prof. Yuezhao Wang, a former director of the Amphibian and Reptile Research Laboratory (CIB, CAS) and Museum of Herpetology (CIB, CAS) for his research on Chinese herpetology and his contributions in leading the Amphibian and Reptile Research Laboratory through many difficulties. We suggest the English common name Wang’s garden lizard and the Chinese name 中国树蜥 (zhōng guó shù xī).

Figures

Figure 5. Photographs of live specimens and their habitats A holotype of Calotes wangi GXUCM-H 202291534 B holotype of C. w. hainanensis CIB 095629 C allotype of C. wangi GXUCM-H 202291533 D allotype of C. w. hainanensis CIB 095630 E, F habitats G oral cavity view.

Figure 6. A holotype of Calotes wangi GXUCM-H 202291534, A 1, A 2, A 3 B allotype of C. wangi GXUCM-H 202291533, B 1, B 2, B 3 C holotype of C. w. hainanensis CIB 095629, C 1, C 2, C 3. 1, dorsal view; 2, ventral view, 3; Dorsolateral view.