Trapelus agnetae Wagner & Melville & Wilms & Schmitz, 2011

Wagner, Philipp, Melville, Jane, Wilms, Thomas M. & Schmitz, Andreas, 2011, Opening a box of cryptic taxa - the first review of the North African desert lizards in the Trapelus mutabilis Merrem, 1820 complex (Squamata: Agamidae) with descriptions of new taxa, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163 (3), pp. 884-912 : 906

TRAPELUS AGNETAE ( WERNER, 1929) STAT. NOV.

1929 Agama agnetae Werner, Zool. Anz., Leipzig 81:329. – Terra typica: Bir Molusi zwischen Damaskus und Bagdad.

1971 Agama pallidus haasi Werner, Bull. Brit. Mus. 21: 213. – Terra typica: Azraq in Transjordan.

Holotype: NMW 23349.

Diagnosis: Small to medium sized member of the genus. Head longer than broad, limbs relatively long. Gular pouch absent. Ear opening longer than high, bordered by a row of spiny scales. Scales on dorsal surface of lower leg and basis of tail heterogeneous. Differs from T. pallidus in having a fringe of three to four distinct spines situated on the upper edge of the ear opening. Dorsal scales small, equal in size, forming a matrix with intermixed larger scales. Ventral scales usually smooth.

Taxonomic note: As it is mentioned in the introduction, T. agnetae was formerly known as a synonym of T. pallidus , but Disi et al. (2001) recognized T. agnetae as identical to Trapelus pallidus haasi described by Y. Werner (1971) and placed the latter in the synonymy of the former. Nevertheless, because of differences in