Leptosiaphos dewittei (LOVERIDGE, 1934)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: De Witte’s Leaf-litter Skink, De Witte's Five-toed Skink
Synonym	Lygosoma (Siaphos) compressicauda DE WITTE 1933: 175 Siaphos dewittei LOVERIDGE 1934: 184 (nom. nov.) Lygosoma (Leptosiaphos) compressicauda — SCHMIDT 1943 Panaspis compressicauda — GREER 1974: 29 Leptosiaphos dewittei — BROADLEY 1998 Leptosiaphos dewittei — PIETERSEN et al. 2021
Distribution	S Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Angola
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: RMCA (= MRAC) 8614 (collector F.G. Overlaet).
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy: Lygosoma (Siaphos) compressicauda is preoccupied by Lygosoma (Hinulia) compressicauda WERNER 1897. Siaphos dewittei is listed as a synonym of Lygosoma kilimensis by LOVERIDGE 1957: 216 and de Witte 1953 (see also Copeia 1934: 184).
Etymology	Named after Dr. Gaston-François de Witte (1897-1980) who worked in the Belgian Congo (1933-1935 and 1946-1949), originally as a colonial administrator but also as a naturalist and collector for the Institut des Parcs Nationales Congo-Belge, Tervuren.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Blackburn, D.G. 1993. STANDARDIZED CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN SQUAMATE REPTILES. Herpetologica 49 (1): 118-132 - get paper here Broadley, D G 1989. A reappraisal of the genus Panaspis Cope, with the description of a new species of Leptosiaphos (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Tanzania. Arnoldia Zimbabwe 9 (32) 1989: 439-449 Broadley, D.G. 1998. The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). In: Schmidt, K.P. and Noble, G.K., Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo... [reprint of the 1919 and 1923 papers]. SSAR Facsimile reprints in Herpetology, 780 pp. Broadley, Donald G. and F. P. D. Cotterill. 2004. The reptiles of southeast Katanga, an overlooked 'hot spot'. [Congo]. African Journal of Herpetology 53 (1): 35-61. - get paper here Greer, A.E. 1974. The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 1-67. - get paper here Loveridge, A. 1934. A new Name for Lygosoma (Siaphos) compressicauda of the Congo, preoccupied. Copeia 1934 (4): 184-184 - get paper here Loveridge, A. 1957. Check list of the reptiles and amphibians of east Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 117 (2): 153-362 - get paper here Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer 2018. Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II) Pietersen, Darren, Verburgt, Luke & Davies, John 2021. Snakes and other reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Struik Nature / Penguin Random House South Africa, 376 pp., ISBN 9781775847373 Schmidt, K. P. 1943. Amphibians and reptiles from the Sudan. Field Mus. nat. Hist (ser. zool.) 24: 331- 338. - get paper here Witte, G. F. de 1933. Rev. Zool. Bot. afr., Bruxelles, 23 (2): 175 Witte, G. F. de 1953. Reptiles. Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba. Mission G. F. de Witte en collaboration avec W. Adam, A. Janssens, L. Van Meel et R. Verheyen (1946–1949). Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo Belge. Brussels, vol. 6, 322 pp. - get paper here
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