Trachylepis quinquetaeniata ( Lichtenstein, 1823:103 )

Bauer, Aaron M., DeBoer, Jonathan C. & Taylor, Dylan J., 2017, Atlas of the Reptiles of Libya, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 64 (8), pp. 155-318 : 267

Trachylepis quinquetaeniata ( Lichtenstein, 1823:103) .

Mapped by LeBerre (1989) as Mabuia [sic] quinquetaeniata for “Cyrénaïque”. This was on the basis of Condorelli-Francaviglia’s (1896) record of Euprepes savignii , a synonym of T. quinquetaeniata . The collection reported on in that publication was that of Prof. Panceri, which was made in Egypt as well as Libya, so it is likely that the specimen came from Egypt, where this species does occur. Ghigi (1913) repeated the Libyan record, but Werner (1909) questioned its validity. The species is chiefly distributed in sub-Saharan Africa and reaches North Africa only along the course of the Nile (Broadley and Bauer 1998). There is a single record from the Tassilin-Ennedi, Chad (Sindaco and Jeremčenko 2008). We examined several additional museum specimens of Heremites vittatus that had also been incorrectly identified as T. quinquetaeniata .