Lacerta rudis chechenica

Barabanov, Andrei V. & Doronin, Igor V., 2020, Annotated list of amphibian and reptile taxa described by Ilya Sergeevich Darevsky (1924 - 2009), Zootaxa 4803 (1), pp. 152-168 : 159

37. Lacerta rudis chechenica EISELT et DAREVSKY (1991: 17)

Holotype: ZISP 17882.1 , male, “Schlucht des Argun-Flusses, Nordabfall des zentralen Kaukasus, 1500 m Seehöhe” [in the canyon of the Argun River above Sovetskoe (= Shatoy), Chechnya, Russia].

Etymology: Named after the subspecies type locality.

Present name: Darevskia rudis chechenica ( Eiselt et Darevsky, 1991) fide Arribas et al. (2013), Doronin (2017).

Remark: In the original description Eiselt and Darevsky provided only the Argun River Gorge as the holotype collection site, without more detail. Here we provide holotype locality according to the original jar label—terra typica restricta ( Doronin 2017).