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E91FF519A3215C75BB09D91363B15624.text	E91FF519A3215C75BB09D91363B15624.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Diploderma limingense Liu & Hou & Rao & Ananjeva 2022	<div><p>Diploderma limingense sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 3, 4, 5</p><p>Holotype.</p><p>KIZ2022014, adult male, collected on 21 April 2022 by Shuo Liu from Liming Village, Liming Township, Yulong County, Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, China (27°2′0″N, 99°40′42″E, 2300 m elevation).</p><p>Paratypes.</p><p>KIZ2022013, KIZ2022015, KIZ2022017, three adult males, collecting information the same as the holotype.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The specific epithet refers to Liming Township, where the new species was discovered.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Diploderma limingense sp. nov. can be diagnosed from congeners by a combination of the following morphological characteristics: (1) body size medium, SVL 55.6-56.8 mm in males; (2) tail relatively long, TAL/SVL 1.92-2.09 in males; (3) head moderately wide, HW/HL 0.71-0.74 in males; (4) limbs relatively long, FLL/SVL 0.47-0.52 in males, HLL/SVL 0.74-0.82 in males; (5) MD 45-48; (6) F4S 15-16, T4S 21-22; (7) tympanum concealed; (8) nuchal and dorsal crest scales feebly developed, no skin folds under nuchal and dorsal crest scales in males; (9) distinct transverse gular fold present; (10) ventral head and body scales strongly keeled; (11) ventral head scales heterogeneous in size; (12) gular spot present in males, yellowish-white in life; (13) dorsolateral stripes jagged in males, light yellow in life; (14) ventral surfaces of body, limbs and tail light brick red in males in life; (15) five radial stripes around the eye on each side; (16) inner lips bright yellow, tongue light orange, remaining oral cavity mostly light flesh colour in life.</p><p>Description of holotype.</p><p>Adult male, SVL 56.2 mm; tail relatively long, TAL 117.5 mm, TAL/SVL 2.09; limbs relatively long, FLL 26.5 mm on left side, FLL/SVL 0.47, HLL 41.8 mm on left side, HLL/SVL 0.74. Head relatively robust, HW/HL 0.74, HD/HW 0.85; snout moderately long, SEL/HL 0.36. Rostral elongated, bordered by five small postrostral scales; dorsal head scales heterogeneous, all strongly keeled; indistinct Y-shaped ridge on dorsal snout. Nasal oval, separated from first supralabial by single row of scales; loreals small, keeled; suborbital scale rows 4/3, keeled; canthus rostralis elongated, greatly overlapping with each other; enlarged, keeled scales forming single lateral ridge from posteroinferior eye to posterosuperior tympanum on each side; tympanum concealed under scales; SL 8/8, feebly keeled. Mental pentagonal; IL 9/9; enlarged chin shields 4/5, smooth, first one contacting IL on each side, remaining ones separated from IL by two rows of small scales; ventral head scales homogeneous in size, smooth or weakly keeled; distinct transverse gular fold present; gular pouch weakly developed.</p><p>Distinct shoulder fold present; dorsal body scales heterogeneous in size and shape, all keeled, tip pointing backwards; axillary scales much smaller than remaining dorsals; enlarged dorsal scales roughly forming four longitudinal rows from neck to pelvis on each side of body. Nuchal and dorsal crests continuous, scales of nuchal and dorsal crests approximately same in size and shape; no skin fold under nuchal and dorsal crests; MD 45. Dorsal limb scales strongly keeled, homogeneous on fore-limbs and heterogeneous on hind limbs; F4S 15/16, T4S 22/22. Ventral body scales approximately parallel, almost homogeneous, all strongly keeled, VN 63. Ventral limb scales parallel, small on fore-limbs and larger on hind limbs, all strongly keeled. Tail scales all strongly keeled, ventral tail scales larger than dorsal tail scales.</p><p>Colouration of holotype in life.</p><p>Dorsal surface of head brownish-grey. A distinct black transverse band anteriorly and an indistinct black transverse band posteriorly present between orbits on dorsal surface of head. Lateral surfaces of head brownish-grey. Five brownish-black radial stripes around eye on each side. Upper lips greyish-white. Inner lips bright yellow, tongue light orange, remaining oral cavity mostly light flesh colour.</p><p>Dorsal surface of body brown. A light yellow jagged dorsolateral stripe present from neck to pelvis on each side of body. Some brownish-black triangular patches distributed along vertebral line between dorsolateral stripes from neck to base of tail, all of which pointing posteriorly. Some yellowish-white spots scattered below dorsolateral stripe on each side of body. Dorsal surfaces of limbs greyish-brown with indistinct dark transverse bands. Dorsal surface of tail brownish-grey with some indistinct dark transverse bands.</p><p>Ventral surface of head greyish-white. A roughly triangular, yellowish-white gular spot present on posterior central part, many grey stripes forming reticulated pattern present on other region of ventral head. Ventral surfaces of body, limbs and tail light brick red with no patterns.</p><p>Variations.</p><p>The variations of morphological character of the type series are provided in Table 2. The variations of colouration in life are very small: the paratype KIZ2022013 has few yellowish-white spots below dorsolateral stripe on each side of body, except for this, all other paratypes closely resemble the holotype.</p><p>Comparisons.</p><p>From species of  Diploderma which are only distributed on East Asian islands,  Diploderma limingense sp. nov. differs from  D. brevipes (Gressitt, 1936),  D. luei (Ota, Chen &amp; Shang, 1998),  D. makii (Ota, 1989),  D. polygonatum Hallowell, 1861 and  D. swinhonis ( Günther, 1864) by the presence of a transverse gular fold (vs. absence).</p><p>From species of  Diploderma which are distributed on mainland, but relatively distant from that of  Diploderma limingense sp. nov.,  Diploderma limingense sp. nov. differs from  D. chapaense (Bourret, 1937),  D. fasciatum (Mertens, 1926),  D. hamptoni (Smith, 1935),  D. menghaiense Liu, Hou, Wang, Ananjeva &amp; Rao, 2020,  D. micangshanense (Song, 1987),  D. ngoclinense (Ananjeva, Orlov &amp; Nguyen, 2017) and  D. yunnanense (Anderson, 1878) by the presence of a transverse gular fold (vs. absence); from  D. dymondi (Boulenger, 1906),  D. varcoae (Boulenger, 1918), by having concealed tympana (vs. exposed); from  D. grahami (Stejneger, 1924) by having a much longer tail (TAL/SVL 1.92-2.09 vs. 1.64) and a distinct transverse gular fold (vs. feeble); and from  D. splendidum (Barbour &amp; Dunn, 1919) by having jagged dorsolateral stripes in males (vs. smooth).</p><p>From species of  Diploderma which occupy distributions relatively close to that of  Diploderma limingense sp. nov. in the Hengduan Mountain Region,  Diploderma limingense sp. nov. differs from  D. panlong Wang, Che &amp; Siler, 2020,  D. slowinskii, (Rao, Vindum, Ma, Fu &amp; Wilkinson, 2017) and  D. swild Wang, Wu, Jiang, Chen, Miao, Siler &amp; Che, 2019 by having concealed tympana (vs. exposed); from  D. angustelinea Wang, Ren, Wu, Che &amp; Siler, 2020,  D. aorun Wang, Jiang, Zheng, Xie, Che &amp; Siler, 2020,  D. bowoense,  D. batangense (Li, Deng, Wu &amp; Wang, 2001),  D. flavilabre Wang, Che &amp; Siler, 2020,  D. formosgulae Wang, Gao, Wu, Dong, Shi, Qi, Siler &amp; Che, 2021,  D. iadinum (Wang, Jiang, Siler &amp; Che, 2016),  D. laeviventre (Wang, Jiang, Siler &amp; Che, 2016),  D. yangi Wang, Zhang &amp; Li, 2022,  D. yulongense and  D. zhaoermii (Gao &amp; Hou, 2002) by having a yellowish-white gular spot in males in life (vs. chartreuse, blue, green, lilac, orange or yellow); from  D. drukdaypo (Wang, Ren, Jiang, Zou, Wu, Che &amp; Siler, 2019) by having strongly keeled ventral scales of body (vs. smooth or weakly keeled); from  D. flaviceps (Barbour &amp; Dunn, 1919) by the presence of a colourful gular spot in males in life (vs. absence) and no skin fold under dorsal and nuchal crests in males (vs. strongly developed and erected); from  D. panchi Wang, Zheng, Xie, Che &amp; Siler, 2020 by having bright yellow inner lips in life (vs. inner lips flesh colour); and from  D. vela (Wang, Jiang &amp; Che, 2015) by having feebly developed crests without strongly erected crest scales or skin fold in males in life (vs. distinctively erected crest scales on continuous, well-developed skin fold).</p><p>Diploderma limingense sp. nov. is phylogenetically sister to  D. qilin and  D. brevicauda, but  Diploderma limingense sp. nov. can be differentiated from  D. qilin by having bright yellow inner lips and light orange tongue in life (vs. both inner lips and tongue light flesh colour) and from  D. brevicauda by having a relatively longer tail in males (TAL/SVL 1.92-2.09 vs. 1.40-1.84) and more mid-dorsal crest scales (MD 45-48 vs. 34-43).</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>This species is known only from the type locality, Liming Township, Yulong County, Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, China (Fig. 1).</p><p>Natural history.</p><p>All specimens were collected between 9 and 11 a.m. on the ground in coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest and there was no water body nearby (Fig. 12A, B). No female or juvenile was found. The population density of this species was moderate and as the habitats of this species not being threatened. According to IUCN Criteria, we recommend listing this new species as Least Concern (LC).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E91FF519A3215C75BB09D91363B15624	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Liu, Shuo;Hou, Mian;Rao, Dingqi;Ananjeva, Natalia B.	Liu, Shuo, Hou, Mian, Rao, Dingqi, Ananjeva, Natalia B. (2022): Three new species of Diploderma Hallowell, 1861 (Squamata, Agamidae) from the Hengduan Mountain Region, south-western China. ZooKeys 1131: 1-30, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1131.86644, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1131.86644
3F48C82203345F99B5A682F489182255.text	3F48C82203345F99B5A682F489182255.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Diploderma shuoquense Liu & Hou & Rao & Ananjeva 2022	<div><p>Diploderma shuoquense sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 6, 7, 8</p><p>Holotype.</p><p>KIZ2022004, adult male, collected on 23 April 2022 by Shuo Liu from the Shuoqu River Valley, Qingde Town, Xiangcheng County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China (28°48′50″N, 99°49′47″E, 2700 m elevation).</p><p>Paratypes.</p><p>KIZ2022005-KIZ2022007, three adult males, collecting information the same as the holotype.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The specific epithet refers to the Shuoqu River, by which the new species was discovered.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Diploderma shuoquense sp. nov. can be diagnosed from congeners by a combination of the following morphological characteristics: (1) body size small, SVL 48.2-52.3 mm in males; (2) tail moderately long, TAL/SVL 1.87-1.97 in males; (3) limbs moderately long, FLL/SVL 0.45-0.49 in males, HLL/SVL 0.69-0.74 in males; (4) head moderately wide, HW/HL 0.72-0.74 in males; (5) MD 34-40; (6) F4S 13-16, T4S 19-21; (7) tympanum concealed; (8) nuchal and dorsal crest scales feebly developed, not distinctively erected or raised on skin folds in males; (9) distinct transverse gular fold present; (10) ventral head scales smooth or weakly keeled and ventral body scales strongly keeled; (11) ventral head scales homogeneous in size; (12) no distinct gular spot in males; (13) dorsolateral stripes jagged in males, yellowish-white or greyish-white in life; (14) 8-10 radial stripes around the eye on each side; (15) oral cavity, inner lips and tongue pink in life.</p><p>Description of holotype.</p><p>Adult male, SVL 52.3 mm; tail moderately long, TAL 98.3 mm, TAL/SVL 1.88; limbs moderately long, FLL 23.4 mm on left side, FLL/SVL 0.45, HLL 36.6 mm on left side, HLL/SVL 0.70. Head relatively robust, HW/HL 0.74, HD/HW 0.82; snout relatively short, SEL/HL 0.34. Rostral rectangular, bordered by six small postrostral scales; dorsal head scales heterogeneous, all strongly keeled; indistinct Y-shaped ridge on dorsal snout. Nasal oval, separated from first supralabial by single row of scales; loreals small, keeled; suborbital scale rows 3/4, keeled; canthus rostralis elongated, greatly overlapping with each other; enlarged, keeled scales forming single lateral ridge from posteroinferior eye to posterosuperior tympanum on each side; tympanum concealed under scales; SL 10/10, feebly keeled. Mental pentagonal; IL 9/9; enlarged chin shields 6/5, smooth, first one contacting IL on left side and first two contacting IL on right side, remaining ones separated from IL by one or two rows of small scales; ventral head scales homogeneous in size, smooth or weakly keeled; distinct transverse gular fold present; gular pouch weakly developed.</p><p>Distinct shoulder fold present; dorsal body scales heterogeneous in size and shape, all keeled, tip pointing backwards; axillary scales much smaller than remaining dorsals; enlarged dorsal scales roughly forming four or five longitudinal rows from neck to pelvis on each side of body. Nuchal and dorsal crests feebly developed, slightly raised compared to dorsals, not erect; no skin fold under nuchal and dorsal crests; MD 40. Dorsal limb scales strongly keeled, homogeneous; F4S 15/16, T4S 21/20. Ventral body scales approximately parallel, almost homogeneous, all strongly keeled, VN 61. Ventral limb scales parallel, almost homogeneous, approximately equal in size to ventrals, all strongly keeled. Tail scales all strongly keeled, ventral tail scales slightly larger than dorsal tail scales.</p><p>Colouration of holotype in life.</p><p>Dorsal surface of head grey. Two distinct black transverse bands present between orbits on dorsal surface of head and two indistinct greyish-black transverse bands present on dorsal surface of snout. Lateral surfaces of head greyish-white. Ten black radial stripes around eye on each side. Upper lips light orange. Oral cavity, inner lips and tongue pink.</p><p>Dorsal surface of body greyish-black. A light yellowish-white dorsolateral longitudinal stripe with strongly jagged upper edge and relatively straight lower edge present on each side of body from occipital region to pelvis. Some indistinct dark and light transverse bands present between two dorsolateral stripes. Some white spots scattered below dorsolateral stripe on each side of body. Dorsal surfaces of limbs dark grey. Some irregular, greyish-white transverse bands present on dorsal surfaces of limbs. Dorsal surface of tail grey with some very indistinct dark transverse bands.</p><p>Ventral surface of head white with distinct black vermiculate stripes. A little yellowish colouration present on centre of gular pouch. Ventral surfaces of body, limbs and tail white with no patterns.</p><p>Variations.</p><p>The variations of morphological character of the type series are provided in Table 3. The variations of colouration in life are as follows: the paratypes resemble the holotype in most aspects, except that the dorsal colouration is darker in the paratype KIZ2022007, the light orange colouration on upper lips is more indistinct in the paratypes KIZ2022005 and KIZ2022006, there is no yellowish colouration on the centre of the gular pouch in the paratypes KIZ2022006 and KIZ2022007 and there is some yellowish colouration on the chest in the paratype KIZ2022005.</p><p>Comparisons.</p><p>From species of  Diploderma which are only distributed on East Asian Islands,  Diploderma shuoquense sp. nov. differs from  D. brevipes,  D. luei,  D. makii,  D. polygonatum and  D. swinhonis by the presence of a transverse gular fold (vs. absence).</p><p>From species of  Diploderma which are distributed on mainland, but relatively distant from that of  Diploderma shuoquense sp. nov.,  Diploderma shuoquense sp. nov. differs from  D. chapaense,  D. fasciatum,  D. hamptoni,  D. menghaiense,  D. micangshanense,  D. ngoclinense and  D. yunnanense by the presence of a transverse gular fold (vs. absence); from  D. dymondi,  D. varcoae, by having concealed tympana (vs. exposed); from  D. grahami by having a much longer tail (TAL/SVL 1.87-1.97 vs. 1.64) and a distinct transverse gular fold (vs. feeble); and from  D. splendidum by having jagged dorsolateral stripes in males (vs. smooth).</p><p>From species of  Diploderma which occupy distributions relatively close to that of  Diploderma shuoquense sp. nov. in the Hengduan Mountain Region,  Diploderma shuoquense sp. nov. differs from  D. panlong,  D. slowinskii and  D. swild by having concealed tympana (vs. exposed); from  D. angustelinea,  D. aorun,  D. batangense,  D. flavilabre,  D. formosgulae,  D. iadinum,  D. laeviventre,  D. yangi,  D. yulongense and  D. zhaoermii by the absence of a distinct gular spot in males in life (vs. presence of a distinct colourful gular spot); from  D. brevicauda by having a relatively longer tail in males (TAL/SVL 1.87-1.97 vs. 1.40-1.84) and pink inner lips and tongue in life (vs. inner lips light yellow and tongue light orange); from  D. drukdaypo by having strongly keeled ventral scales of body (vs. smooth or weakly keeled); from  D. flaviceps by the presence of distinct radial stripes around the eyes (vs. absence) and the absence of a skin fold under dorsal crest in males in life (vs. presence); from  D. panchi by having less mid-dorsal crest scales (MD 34-40 vs. 42-46) and smooth or weakly keeled ventral scales of head (vs. distinctively keeled); from  D. qilin by having a relatively shorter tail in males (TAL/SVL 1.87-1.97 vs. 2.01-2.18); and from  D. vela by having feebly developed crests without strongly erected crest scales or skin fold in males in life (vs. distinctively erected crest scales on continuous, well-developed skin fold).</p><p>Diploderma shuoquense sp. nov. is phylogenetically sister to  D. bowoense, but  Diploderma shuoquense sp. nov. can be differentiated from the latter by the absence of a light chrome orange gular spot in males in life (vs. presence) and having a wider head (HW/HL 0.72-0.74 vs. 0.65-0.71) and smooth or weakly keeled ventral scales of head (vs. distinctively keeled).</p><p>Diploderma shuoquense sp. nov. differs from  Diploderma limingense sp. nov. by having a smaller body size in males (SVL 48.2-52.3 mm vs. 55.6-56.8 mm), vermiculate stripes covering the whole ventral head (vs. stripes not reaching the centre of gular pouch), white ventral surfaces of body, limbs and tail in males in life (vs. light brick red), pink inner lips and tongue in life (vs. inner lips bright yellow, tongue light orange) and more radial stripes around the eyes (8-10 vs. five on each side).</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>This species is known only from the type locality, Qingde Town, Xiangcheng County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China (Fig. 1).</p><p>Natural history.</p><p>This species is terrestrial, inhabiting the hot-dry valley. There are many thorny shrubs and some rock piles at the type locality (Fig. 12C, D). All specimens were collected between 1 and 3 p.m. when they were basking on rock piles, no female or juvenile being found. We found many locusts at the type locality, which may be the main prey of this species; however, the population density of this species was very low and the habitats at the type locality being threatened by human activities. According to IUCN Criteria, we recommend listing this new species as Vulnerable (VU).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3F48C82203345F99B5A682F489182255	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Liu, Shuo;Hou, Mian;Rao, Dingqi;Ananjeva, Natalia B.	Liu, Shuo, Hou, Mian, Rao, Dingqi, Ananjeva, Natalia B. (2022): Three new species of Diploderma Hallowell, 1861 (Squamata, Agamidae) from the Hengduan Mountain Region, south-western China. ZooKeys 1131: 1-30, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1131.86644, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1131.86644
4056C64FE94253E899138EFFB14942E1.text	4056C64FE94253E899138EFFB14942E1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Diploderma yongshengense Liu & Hou & Rao & Ananjeva 2022	<div><p>Diploderma yongshengense sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 9, 10, 11</p><p>Holotype.</p><p>KIZ2022009, adult male, collected on 24 April 2022 by Shuo Liu from the Jinsha River Valley, Songping Township, Yongsheng County, Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, China (27°2′2″N, 100°28′16″E, 1700 m elevation).</p><p>Paratypes.</p><p>KIZ2022008, KIZ2022010-KIZ2022011, three adult males, collecting information the same as the holotype.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The specific epithet refers to Yongsheng County, where the new species was discovered.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Diploderma yongshengense sp. nov. can be diagnosed from congeners by a combination of the following morphological characteristics: (1) body size moderate, SVL 56.5-58.5 mm in males; (2) tail long, TAL/SVL 2.02-2.20 in males; (3) limbs relatively long, FLL/SVL 0.48-0.51 in males, HLL/SVL 0.79-0.87 in males; (4) head moderately wide, HW/HL 0.66-0.75 in males; (5) MD 38-41; (6) F4S 16-19, T4S 22-25; (7) tympanum concealed; (8) nuchal and dorsal crests moderately developed on weak skin folds in males; (9) distinct transverse gular fold present; (10) ventral scales of head and body strongly keeled; (11) ventral head scales heterogeneous in size; (12) gular spot present in males, blue or green in life; (13) dorsolateral stripes jagged in males, light yellow in life; (14) radial stripes around the eyes indistinct; (15) oral cavity, inner lips and tongue light flesh colour in life.</p><p>Description of holotype.</p><p>Adult male, SVL 58.5 mm; tail long, TAL 128.7 mm, TAL/SVL 2.20; limbs relatively long, FLL 27.9 mm on left side, FLL/SVL 0.48, HLL 46.5 mm on left, HLL/SVL 0.79. Head relatively robust, HW/HL 0.75, HD/HW 0.87; snout moderately long, SEL/HL 0.37. Rostral elongated, bordered by five small postrostral scales; dorsal head scales heterogeneous, all strongly keeled; distinct Y-shaped ridge on dorsal snout. Nasal oval, separated from first supralabial by single row of scales; loreals small, keeled; suborbital scale rows 4/4, keeled; canthus rostralis elongated, greatly overlapping with each other; enlarged, keeled scales forming single lateral ridge from posteroinferior eye to posterosuperior tympanum on each side; tympanum concealed under scales; SL 9/9, feebly keeled. Mental pentagonal; IL 11/10; enlarged chin shields 5/5, smooth, first one contacting IL on each side, remaining ones separated from IL by two rows of small scales; ventral head scales heterogeneous in size with the ones on the centre of gular pouch largest, all strongly keeled; distinct transverse gular fold present; gular pouch well developed.</p><p>Distinct shoulder fold present; dorsal body scales heterogeneous in size and shape, all keeled, tip pointing backwards; axillary scales much smaller than remaining dorsals; enlarged dorsal scales irregularly scattered on lateral surface of body. Nuchal crest scales approximately same in size and shape as dorsal crest scales; moderately developed skin fold under nuchal crest and feeble skin fold under dorsal crest; MD 38. Dorsal limb scales strongly keeled, mostly homogeneous, except a few enlarged, conical scales on postaxial thighs; F4S 17/16, T4S 23/23. Ventral body scales approximately parallel, almost homogeneous, all strongly keeled, VN 59. Ventral limb scales parallel, almost homogeneous, approximately equal in size to ventrals, all strongly keeled. Tail scales all strongly keeled, ventral tail scales larger than dorsal tail scales.</p><p>Colouration of holotype in life.</p><p>Dorsal surface of head brown with no transverse bands. Lateral surfaces of head brownish-white. No radial stripes present around eyes, only two brownish-black stripes present behind eye on each side. Oral cavity, inner lips and tongue light flesh colour.</p><p>Dorsal surface of body brown. A light yellow dorsolateral longitudinal stripe with relatively straight upper edge and strongly jagged lower edge present on each side of body from occipital region to pelvis. Some brownish-black transverse bands present between two dorsolateral stripes. Some light yellow spots scattered below dorsolateral stripe on each side of body. Dorsal surfaces of limbs greyish-brown. Some indistinct dark transverse bands present on dorsal surfaces of limbs. Dorsal surface of tail brownish-grey with some indistinct dark transverse bands.</p><p>Ventral surface of head yellowish-white. A triangular, light yellow edged light blue gular spot present on posterior central part, indistinct brown stripes present on other region of ventral head. Ventral surfaces of body, limbs and tail white with no patterns.</p><p>Variations.</p><p>The variations of morphological character of the type series are provided in Table 4. The variations of colouration in life are as follows: the paratypes resemble the holotype in most aspects, except that there are indistinct transverse bands on the dorsal surface of the head in all paratypes; the gular spot is light green in the paratypes KIZ2022008 and KIZ2022010; the dorsal colouration is darker, the stripes on the ventral surface of head are more distinct in the paratypes KIZ2022008 and KIZ2022011; and there are some brown speckles on the ventral surfaces of body, limbs and tail in the paratype KIZ2022008.</p><p>Comparisons.</p><p>From species of  Diploderma which are only distributed on East Asian Islands,  Diploderma yongshengense sp. nov. differs from  D. brevipes,  D. luei,  D. makii,  D. polygonatum and  D. swinhonis by the presence of a transverse gular fold (vs. absence).</p><p>From species of  Diploderma which are distributed on mainland, but relatively distant from that of  Diploderma yongshengense sp. nov.,  Diploderma yongshengense sp. nov. differs from  D. chapaense,  D. fasciatum,  D. hamptoni,  D. menghaiense,  D. micangshanense,  D. ngoclinense and  D. yunnanense by the presence of a transverse gular fold (vs. absence); from  D. dymondi,  D. varcoae, by having concealed tympana (vs. exposed); from  D. grahami by having a much longer tail (TAL/SVL 2.02-2.20 vs. 1.64) and a distinct transverse gular fold (vs. feeble); and from  D. splendidum by having jagged dorsolateral stripes in males (vs. smooth).</p><p>From species of  Diploderma which occupy distributions relatively close to that of  Diploderma yongshengense sp. nov. in the Hengduan Mountain Region,  Diploderma yongshengense sp. nov. differs from  D. panlong,  D. slowinskii and  D. swild by having concealed tympana (vs. exposed); from  D. drukdaypo and  D. vela by the presence of a colourful gular spot in males in life (vs. absence); from  D. angustelinea,  D. bowoense,  D. brevicauda,  D. formosgulae,  D. laeviventre,  D. qilin and  D. zhaoermii by having a blue or green gular spot in males in life (vs. chartreuse, lilac, orange or yellow); from  D. aorun by having less distinct radial stripes around the eyes (vs. more distinct), less distinct stripes on the ventral surface of head (vs. more distinct speckles or vermiculated patterns) and heterogeneous ventral head scales (vs. homogeneous); from  D. batangense by having white ventral surface of body in males in life (vs. yellow); from  D. flaviceps by the presence of a colourful gular spot in males in life (vs. absence); from  D. flavilabre by having light flesh coloured inner lips in life (vs. yellow); from  D. iadinum by having brown dorsal ground colouration in males in life (vs. emerald green); from  D. panchi by having less mid-dorsal crest scales (MD 38-41 vs. 42-46) and heterogeneous ventral head scales (vs. homogeneous); and from  D. yangi by having jagged dorsolateral stripes in males (vs. smooth).</p><p>Diploderma yongshengense sp. nov. is phylogenetically sister to  D. yulongense, but  Diploderma yongshengense sp. nov. can be differentiated from the latter by having a blue or green gular spot in males in life (vs. chartreuse or opaline green), more distinct stripes on the ventral surface of head (vs. less distinct), white ventral and ventrolateral surface of body in males in life (vs. green) and light yellow dorsolateral stripes and enlarged scales on each side of body in males in life (vs. greenish-yellow).</p><p>Diploderma yongshengense sp. nov. differs from  Diploderma limingense sp. nov. by having less mid-dorsal crest scales (MD 38-41 vs. 45-48), a blue or green gular spot in males in life (vs. yellowish-white), white ventral surfaces of body, limbs and tail in males in life (vs. light brick red) and light flesh coloured inner lips and tongue in life (vs. inner lips bright yellow, tongue light orange).</p><p>Diploderma yongshengense sp. nov. differs from  Diploderma shuoquense sp. nov. by having a larger body size in males (SVL 56.5-58.5 vs. 48.2-52.3), a relatively longer tail in males (TAL/SVL 2.02-2.20 vs. 1.87-1.97), relatively longer hind limbs in males (HLL/SVL 0.79-0.87 vs. 0.69-0.74), more subdigital lamellae of fourth toe (22-25 vs. 19-21) and strongly keeled ventral scales of head (vs. smooth or weakly keeled) and the presence of a distinct colourful gular spot in males in life (vs. absence).</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>This species is presently known from Yongsheng and Ninglang counties, Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, China, it probably occurs in adjacent Muli County, Sichuan Province, China (Fig. 1).</p><p>Natural history.</p><p>This species is terrestrial, inhabiting the hot-dry valley. There are a few trees and many rocks at the type locality (Fig. 12E, F). All specimens were collected between 2 and 4 p.m. when they were basking on large rocks, no female or juvenile being found. The population density of this species was relatively high, however, the habitats of this species being seriously threatened by human activities. According to IUCN Criteria, we recommend listing this new species as Near Threatened (NT).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4056C64FE94253E899138EFFB14942E1	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Liu, Shuo;Hou, Mian;Rao, Dingqi;Ananjeva, Natalia B.	Liu, Shuo, Hou, Mian, Rao, Dingqi, Ananjeva, Natalia B. (2022): Three new species of Diploderma Hallowell, 1861 (Squamata, Agamidae) from the Hengduan Mountain Region, south-western China. ZooKeys 1131: 1-30, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1131.86644, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1131.86644
