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REPTILIA: SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE 



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LAMPROPELTIS 



LAMPROPELTIS FUzinger 



18*3 Lampropelt is Fitzinger, Systema Reptilium: 25. Type-species: Herpetodryas qetulus Schlegel. 

 1843 Sphenoph is Fitzirger, Systema Reptilium: 25- Type-species: Coronella coccinea Schlegel, not of 



Blumenbach, = Lampropelt is tr ianqulum (Lacepede). 

 I853 Oph ibolus Ba i rd and Girard, Cat. N, Amer. Rept., Serp. : 82. Type-species: Oph ibolus Say i Baird 



and Girard. 

 I876 Belloph is Lockington, Proc. California Acad. Sc i . , ]: 52. Type-species: Belloph is zonatus 



Lockington = Coluber zonatus Blainville. 

 I857 Oreoph is Ouges, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857' 281. Type-species: Oreophis boulenqeri Duges = 



Oph i bolus tr ianqulus mex icanus Garman. 

 1521 Triaenopholis Werner, Sitz. Math.-Naturw iss. Kl. Akad. Wiss. Wien, I33, abt. 1: 5O. Type-species: 



Tr iaenophol i s arenar i us Werner. 



Distribution: Southwestern Canada through United States, Mexico and Central America into extreme 

 northwestern South America. 



Content: About 16 species, only one of which occurs within limits of this work. 



LAMPROPELTIS TRIANGULUM (Lacepede) 



1785 Coluber Triangulum Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Quadr. Ovip. Serp., 2: 86. Type-locality: America. 

 I860 L[ ampropelt is j trianqula — Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860: 256. 



Distribution: Most of continental United States to Panama and northwestern Colombia and Ecuador. 



Comment: Opinion 804, Bull. Zool. Nomen., 24, I967, fixes the trivial name of this taxon as 

 " tr ianqulum ". which must therefore be used rather than " dol iata ". 



Content: About I5 subspecies, of which five occur within limits of this work. 



Key to the subspecies 



1. Body with ringed pattern in adults 2 



Body in adults uniformly black qa iqae 



2. Black annuli not expanded middorsally; 



light annuli complete middorsally 3 



Black annuli expanded middorsally to pinch 

 out intervening light annuli abnorma 



3. Less than 180 ventrals 4 



More than 210 ventrals m icrophol is 



4. Light annuli numbering more than 18 on 



body; scales in red annuli with darker 



tips in adults polvzona 



Light annuli on body numbering I7 or less; 

 scales in red annuli without darker tips-- 

 ol i qozona 



Clave de subespecies 



1. OiseRo de adultos anillado 2 



DiseRo de adultos un if ormemente negro 



qa iqae 



2. Anillos negros no expandidos mediodorsal- 



mente; anillos claros completes en el 



medio dorso 3 



Anillos negros expandidos mediodorsalmente, 

 invaden comprimiendo los claros abnorma 



3. Menos de 180 ventrales 4 



Mas de 210 ventrales m icrophol is 



4. Anillos claros en numero mayor a 18 en el 



cuerpo; escamas de los anillos rojos con 



marcas oscuras en adultos polvzona 



Anillos claros en numero de I7 menos 

 sobre el cuerpo; escamas de los anillos 

 rojos sin marcas oscuras ol iqozona 



Lampropelt is tr ianqulum abnorma (Bocourt) 



1886 I Coronella f ormosa j var. anomala Bocourt (preoccupied by Coronella anomala GDnther, 1858), 

 Miss. Sci. Mex., Rept.: 614. Type-locality: Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. 



1886 Coronella f ormosa abnorma Bocourt (substitute name for Coronella anomala Bocourt, 1886), 

 Miss. Sci. Mex., Rept., 1886: pi. 35, figs. 4-4e. 



1542 [ Lampropelt i s j t[ r ianqulum j a_bnorma— Sm i th, Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci., 8: 246. 



Distribution: Low and moderate elevations in central Guatemala. 



Lampropelt is tr ianqulum qa i qae Dunn 



1937 Lampropel t is tr iangulum ga i9ae Dunn, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 353' 9' Type- 

 locality: Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama. 



Distribution: Mountains of western Panama and eastern Costa Rica. 



