Diploderma menghaiense LIU, HOU, WANG, ANANJEVA & RAO, 2020

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Higher Taxa	Agamidae (Draconinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E:Menghai Mountain Lizard Chinese: Mìng Ha?i Pân Xî, Meng Hai Long Xi (勐海龙蜥)
Synonym	Diploderma menghaiense LIU, HOU, WANG, ANANJEVA & RAO 2020 Japalura varcoae — ZHAO & JIANG 1966: 129 Japalura yunnanensis — YANG et al 1980: 263 Japalura varcoae — KOU & ZHANG 1987: 362 Japalura yunnanensis — JIANG 1992: 31 Japalura varcoae — YANG 1993: 135 Japalura yunnanensis — ZHAO & YANG 1997: 169 – 170 Japalura varcoae — ZHAO et al. 1999: 128 – 131 Japalura yunnanensis — ZHAO 1999: 131 – 133 Japalura yunnanensis — HE & ZHOU 2002: 166 Japalura varcoae — HE & ZHOU 2002: 166 Japalura varcoae — LI et al 2005: 74 Japalura varcoae — YANG 2008: 202 Japalura yunnanensis — YANG 2008: 202 – 203 Japalura yunnanensis — MANTHEY & DENZER 2012: 39 Japalura varcoae — LIU & YANG 2015: 377 Japalura varcoae — ZHANG et al 2019: 116 Japalura varcoae — LIU & MA 2019: 135 Diploderma yunnanense — WANG 2019: 492
Distribution	China (Yunnan) Type locality: on the border with Xiding Zone of Menghai Natural Nature Reserve (21°54;18’’ N 100°00’18’’ E, 1968 m a.s.l. elevation), Xiding Township, Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunan Province, China.
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: KIZ-2019067, adult male, collected on 14 July, 2019 by Shuo Liu. Paratypes: KIZ-2019068-69 (adult females), KIZ-2019071 (adult male), L0030 (adult male), collecting data the same as for holotype; HM-2015001-2 (adult males) and HM-2015003-4 (adult females), collected in 28 July, 2015 by Mian Hou, Jian Wang, and Axel Hernandez in Menghun Town (21°48’22’’ N 100°27’46’’ E, 1742 m a.s.l. elevation), Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunan Province, China (Fig. 4).
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Tympanum concealed; gular pouch distinct; tail long, TAL 2.4 – 2.8 times of SVL; 9 scales including the first supralabials contacted the rostral; T4S 26 – 31; nuchal crest strongly developed; coloration of oral cavity and tongue vitelline yellow; chin region white, scales of gular region white with orange edges and interstitial skin of gular region orange; background color of body yellowish white in males and green or light brown in females; males with a pair of yellow strips from the posterior area of shoulder backward and downward on the lateral of the anterior half of body (Table 3 in Liu et al. 2020).
Comment
Etymology	The specific epithet refers to the Menghai County where the new species was discovered.
References	He X. R. and Zhou X. Q. 2002. The fauna and geographical regionalization of reptiles in Yunnan Province. [in Chinese] Sichuan J. Zool., 21(3): 161 – 169 Li Z. J., Cao G. H., Zhou F., Jiang W. G., and Hu J. S. 2005. A report on amphibians and reptiles of Nabanhe National Nature Reserve in Yunnan,Ý in: Zhou K. Y. and Ji X. (eds.), Herpetologica Sinica X. [in Chinese] Jilin People’s Publishing House, Changchun, pp. 68 – 75 Liu F. and Yang S. H. (eds.), 2015. A Comprehensive Scientific Investigation of Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve. [in Chinese] Yunnan Publishing Group Corporation, Yunnan Science and Technology Press, Kunming, China Liu G. L. and Ma J. (eds.) 2019. Menghai County Nature Reserve of Xishuangbanna. [in Chinese] Yunnan Publishing Group Corporation, Yunnan Science and Technology Press, Kunming, China Liu, S., Li, Z., Yang, T., Hou, M., Rao, D., & Ananjeva, N. B. 2024. A New Species of Diploderma (Squamata: Sauria: Agamidae) from Yunnan Nangunhe National Nature Reserve, China. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 31(6), 379-391 - get paper here Liu, Shuo; Mian Hou, Jian Wang, Natalia Borisovna Ananjeva, Dingqi Rao 2020. A New Species of Diploderma (Squamata: Sauria: Agamidae) from Yunnan Province, China. Russian Journal of Herpetology 27 (3): 127-148 - get paper here MANTHEY, U. & W. DENZER 2012. Bemerkungen zur Verbreitung von Japalura yunnanensis ANDERSON, 1878 (Squamata: Agamidae: Draconinae). Sauria 34 (2): 35-40 - get paper here Wang K, Lyu ZT, Wang J, Qi S, Che J 2022. Updated Checklist and Zoogeographic Division of the Reptilian Fauna of Yunnan Province, China. Biodiversity Science 30 (4): 21326, 1–31 - get paper here Yang D. H. (ed.), 1993. Fauna of Xishuangbanna. [in Chinese] Yunnan Univ. Publishing Co. Ltd., Kunming, China Yang D. T., Su C. Y., and Li S. M. 1980. A preliminary study on reptiles in southern Yunnan. [in Chinese with English abstract] Acta Zool. Sinica, 26(3): 262 – 265 Zhang L., Zong C. M., Yang K. F., and Wang Q. Y. 2019. Preliminary survey and faunal analysis of amphibians and reptiles in Menghai Nature Reserve. [in Chinese with English abstract]. Forest Invent. Plan., 44(3): 114 – 119 Zhao E. M. and Jiang Y. M. 1966. A survey and checklist of Yunnan reptiles. [in Chinese] Chinese J. Zool. 8(3): 127 – 130 Zhao E. M., Zhao K., Zhou K. Y. 1999. Fauna Sinica, Reptilia, Vol. 2, Squamata, Lacertilia. [In Chinese] Beijing: Science Press, 394 pp Zhao, E & Yang, D. 1997. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Hengduan Mountain Region. [in Chinese] Science Press, Beijing, 303 pp.
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