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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Tawny Cat Snake
G: Stoliczkas Nachtbaumnatter 
SynonymDipsadomorphus stoliczkae WALL 1909: 155
Boiga stoliczkae — SHAW 1940
Boiga ochracea stoliczkae — KRAMER 1977: 735
Boiga stoliczkae — KÖHLER et al. 2023 
DistributionC Nepal, India (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim), N Myanmar, China (Tibet)

Type locality: “near Darjeeling, Burma”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype. BMNH 94.12.31.55 (Figs. 17 and 18), an adult male from “Darjeeling” (west Bengal state, India), presented by william thomas Blanford. Paralectotypes. BMNH 72.4.17.119 and 72.4.17.386, both females from „Darjeeling“, presented by t.C. jerdon; BMNH 74.4.1193–1194, both females from „Burma“ [in error, most probably from the Eastern himalayas], presented by R.H. Beddome; BMNH 1909.3.13–15, halfgrown, one female and two with unknown sex; BMNH 1930.5.8.648–649, two skulls, 1930.5.8.650, genitals, and 1930.5.5.651, three vertebrae, all from „Darjeeling“ collected and presented by F. wall; BNHS 1772, a female from „tindharia, Darjeeling“, collector unknown; ZSIK 7869, male, 7873, 7878, 8476 and 11367 all females from „Darjeeling“ collected and presented by British botanist George Alexander Gammie (1864–1935). [stoliczkae] 
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CommentSynonymy after SMITH 1943 and Köhler et al. 2023. “Wall has pointed out (1909) that Blyth’s hexagonatus is a juvenile specimen of cyanea, but his wish to retain the name hexagonatus by transferring the authorship to Stoliczka is not possible under the Rules of Nomenclature. The name hexagonatus must become a synonym of cyanea, and the next one available is Günther’s ochracea.” (cited after SMITH 1943). B. multomaculata and B. ochracea are closely related and may be conspecific (Weinell et al. 2020, 2021). Köhler et al. 2023 synonymized walli with ochracea.

Note that the original name has been cited as Dipsas ochraceus GÜNTHER 1868 or Dipsas ochraceus THEOBALD in GÜNTHER 1868. However, the paper by Theobald seems to have been published before that of Günther (and Günther actually refers to Theobald in his paper although without providing a published source).

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyApparently named after Dr. Ferdinand Stoliczka (1838-1874), a paleontologist and zoologist born in Moravia (Czech Republic). Wall only says “I propose the name stoliczkae, the first references to it having been made by Stoliczka”. 
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