Herpestes vitticollis Bennett, 1835 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835:67.

TYPE LOCALITY: "in forests about twenty miles inland from Kolun or Quilon, in the Travancore country" [India] .

DISTRIBUTION: S India, Sri Lanka.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (India).

SYNONYMS: inornatus Pocock, 1941; rubiginosus Wagner, 1841 .