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Cnemaspis hitihamii KARUNARATHNA, POYARKOV, DE SILVA, MADAWALA, BOTEJUE, GORIN, SURASINGHE, GABADAGE, UKUWELA & BAUER, 2019

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Hitihamis’ day gecko
Sinhala: Hitihamige diva-seri hoona 
SynonymCnemaspis hitihami KARUNARATHNA, POYARKOV, DE SILVA, MADAWALA, BOTEJUE, GORIN, SURASINGHE, GABADAGE, UKUWELA & BAUER 2019
Cnemaspis hitihamii — AMARASINGHE & KARUNARATHNA 2020 (emendation) 
DistributionSri Lanka (Monaragala District)

Type locality: granite cave in Kumaradola, Maragalakanda,
Monaragala District, Uva Province, Sri Lanka (6.875428° N,
81.357289° E, WGS1984; elevation 421 m  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. NMSL.2019.06.01, adult male, 41.7 mm SVL (Fig. 13),
collected around 16.00 hrs) on 18 September 2018 by Suranjan Karunarathna and Anslem de Silva.
Paratypes. NMSL.2019.06.02, adult male, 38.8 mm SVL, and
NMSL.2019.06.03, adult female, 39.5 mm SVL, collected from a
granite cave in Kumaradola, Maragalakanda, Monaragala District, Uva Province, Sri Lanka (6.879725° N, 81.364986° E, WGS1984; elevation 437 m; around 17.00 hrs) on 18 September 2018 by Suranjan Karunarathna and Anslem de Silva. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Cnemaspis hitihami sp. nov., can be readily distinguished from its Sri Lankan congeners by a combination of the following morphological and meristic characteristics and color pattern: maximum SVL 41.7 mm; dorsum with homogeneous, smooth granular scales; 2/2 supranasals, 1 internasal and 1/1 postnasal present; 3 enlarged postmentals; postmentals bounded by 5 chin scales; chin and gular scales smooth. granular, juxtaposed; pectoral and abdominal scales smooth, subimbricate; 21 belly scales across the venter; 4 – 5 well developed tubercles on posterior flank; 143 – 149 paravertebral granules linearly arranged; precloacal pores absent in males, 5 – 10 femoral pores in males on each side separated by 24 – 26 unpored femoro-precloacal scales, 5 – 7 unpored posterior femoral scales; 132 – 135 ventral scales; 96 – 99 midbody scales; enlarged subcaudals smooth, subequal, subhexagonal, arranged in a regular median row; 8 – 9 supralabials; 7 – 9 infralabials; 18 – 19 total lamellae on digit IV IV of manus, and 21 – 22 total lamellae on digit IV of pes.


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CommentSympatry: Calodactylodes illingworthorum and Hemidactylus hunae) and generalist gecko species (Cnemaspis kumarasinghei, C. podihuna, Gehyra mutilata, Hemidactylus depressus, H. frenatus, H. leschenaultii, H. parvimaculatus and H. triedrus). 
EtymologyThe specific epithet is an eponym Latinized (hitihami) in the masculine genitive singular, honouring the Sri Lankan warrior ‘Meegahapitiye Walauwe Hitihami. 
References
  • Amarasinghe, A.A.T. & S. Karunarathna 2020. A new diminutive day gecko species of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Pilikuttuwa, near the capital of Sri Lanka. TAPROBANICA 9 (1): 71-82 - get paper here
  • Karunarathna, Suranjan; Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Anslem de Silva, Majintha Madawala, Madhava Botejue, Vladislav A. Gorin, Thilina Surasinghe, Dinesh Gabadage, Kanishka D.B. Ukuwela & Aaron M. Bauer 2019. Integrative taxonomy reveals six new species of day geckos of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from geographically-isolated hill forests in Sri Lanka. Vertebrate Zoology 69 (3): 247–298 - get paper here
  • Kwet, A. 2020. Liste der im Jahr 2019 neubeschriebenen Reptilien. Elaphe 2020 (3): 44-67
 
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