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Eremias vermiculata BLANFORD, 1875

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Higher TaxaLacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Central Asian Racerunner, Variegated Racerunner
Chinese: 虫纹麻蜥 
SynonymEremias vermiculata BLANFORD 1875
Poderces (Eremias) Pylzowi STRAUCH 1876
Eremias vermiculata — ZUGMAYER 1909: 487
Eremias (Rhabderemias) vermiculata — BISCHOFF 1978
Eremias vermiculata — ZHAO & ADLER 1993
Eremias vermiculata — SZCZERBAK 2003
Eremias (Rhaderemias) vermiculata — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 
DistributionC/S Mongolia,
NW China (Xinjiang, Sinkiang, Ningxia, Gansu, east to Nei Mongol)
SE Kazakhstan

Type locality: Eastern Turkestan, Yarkend [Yarkand], Kashgaria, China (Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: ZSI 5308 and 5340 
Diagnosis 
CommentPlate 28B in ZHAO & ADLER 1993.

The subgenus Rhaderemias is not monophyletic (GUO et al. 2011). 
References
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