Hemidactylus mahendrai Shukla, 1983

Mahony, Stephen, 2011, Taxonomic revision of Hemidactylus brookii Gray: a re-examination of the type series and some Asian synonyms, and a discussion of the obscure species Hemidactylus subtriedrus Jerdon (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), Zootaxa 3042, pp. 37-67 : 45

Hemidactylus mahendrai Shukla, 1983

This species was described based on four adult females and one juvenile collected from the “suberbs [sic] of Kanpur of Uttar Pradesh” ( Shukla 1983). The diagnosis of the new species from congeners was based on the general descriptions of Smith (1935). The comparison poorly diagnosed this species from H. brookii s.l., and it has been regarded by recent authorities to be a synonym pending a review of the species based on examination of specimens (Zug et al. 2007; Bauer et al. 2010b; Rösler & Glaw 2010). Regarding this present review, it would not be possible to assign the name to the synonymy of any of the species dealt with here without examining topotype material. If considering the defining characters used in that description, e.g., high lamellae counts and geographical proximity, this species may be a synonym of H. kushmorensis , but I here retain it provisionally within the synonymy of H. brookii s.l..