A new species record of Hemiphyllodactylus lungcuensis Luu, Nguyen, Do, Pham, Hoang, Nguyen, Le, Ziegler, Grismer & Grismer, 2023 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Yunnan Province in China

By

Zhang, Dong-Ru
Leilei, Zhang
Shunfeng, Liu
Guangbin, Liu
Yaling, Fan
Wenjing, Shen
Zhengpeng, Chen
Keguo, Han
Jianhong, Li
Hongxin, Zhou

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-12-17

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

13

Pages

1--14

Subjects

Funing County , Morphology , ND2 , new record , slender gecko

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e173469

 

Abstract

<br> Hemiphyllodactylus lungcuensis<br> Luu, Nguyen, Do, Pham, Hoang, Nguyen, Le, Ziegler, Grismer &amp; Grismer was described in 2023, based on seven specimens. Its type locality is Lung Cu Commune, Dong Van District, Ha Giang Province, in north-eastern Vietnam, near the Sino-Vietnamese border. Currently, the species is known only from the type locality; there are no records of its occurrence in China.<br> <br> <br> On 10 August 2025, we collected a single<br> Hemiphyllodactylus<br> specimen in Lida Town, Funing County, Yunnan Province, China. In the phylogenetic tree, this individual clusters with the paratypes and holotype of<br> H. lungcuensis<br> with strong support. The specimen from China agrees well with the original morphological description of the species and has a minor mean genetic distance of 1.9% in the ND2 gene with the type specimen of this species. Here, we report the first record of<br> H. lungcuensis<br> for China.<br>