Leiolepis ngovantrii GRISMER & GRISMER, 2010

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Higher Taxa	Agamidae (Leiolepididae or Leiolepidinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Ngo Van Tri’s Lady Butterfly Lizard
Synonym	Leiolepis ngovantrii GRISMER & GRISMER 2010
Distribution	Vietnam (Ba Ria Vung Tau) Type locality: Binh Chau – Phuoc Buu Nature Reserve, Xuyen Moc district, Ba Ria Vung Tau Province, Vietnam (10°32.418N 107°32.177E); 30 m elevation.
Reproduction	parthenogenetic, unisexual species; the parental species are southern L. guttata (M) × southern L. reevesii (P).
Types	Holotype: LSUHC 9234, adult female, collected on 21 June 2009. Paratypes. The collection data for the paratypes (all females) LSUHC 9230–33 and LSUHC 9235 are the same as the holotype.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Leiolepis ngovantrii differs from all sexual species of Leiolepis in lacking males; it differs from all asexual species in having a combination of nine rows of enlarged keeled scales across the forearm; 37–40 subdigital lamellae beneath the fourth toe; a relatively narrow head (0.71–0.83); 50–53 dorsal scales between the dorsolateral stripes; absence of a lateral, caudal stripe; having 24 or 25 gular scales between the enlarged, mandibular scales; the ventrolateral stripe not reaching the axillary region; absence of a black, Yshaped marking in the pectoral region, a vertebral stripe, and eyespots bearing white centers; presence of transverse bars on the flanks; presence of thin, transverse, dorsal, caudal bars, and the absence of dorsal, caudal blotches.
Comment	Sympatry: Leiolepis ngovantrii lives in sympatry and, in some places, syntopy with its maternal ancestor L. guttata.
Etymology	This species is named in honor of Mr. Ngo Van Tri whose extensive field work in southern Vietnam resulted in the discovery of this new, asexual population as well as many other new species of lizards.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Grismer, J.L. & Grismer, L.L. 2010. Who’s your mommy? Identifying maternal ancestors of asexual species of Leiolepis Cuvier, 1829 and the description of a new endemic species of asexual Leiolepis Cuvier, 1829 from Southern Vietnam. Zootaxa 2433: 47–61 - get paper here Grismer, Jesse L.; Aaron M. Bauer, L. Lee Grismer, Kumthorn Thirakhupt, Anchelee Aowphol, Jamie R. Oaks, Perry L. Wood Jr, Chan Kin Onn, Neang Thy, Micheal Cota and Todd Jackman 2014. Multiple origins of parthenogenesis, and a revised species phylogeny for the Southeast Asian butterfly lizards, Leiolepis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113 (4): 1080–1093 - get paper here Nguyen, Thomas Ziegler & Truong Quang; 2010. New discoveries of amphibians and reptiles from Vietnam. Bonn Zool. Bull. 57 (2): 137–147 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2011/06/herpetology-2010-leiolepis-ngovantrii… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/new-species-southeast-asia_n… Google images

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