Lygodactylus angolensis Bocage, 1896

Baptista, Ninda L., António, Telmo & Branch, William R., 2019, The herpetofauna of Bicuar National Park and surroundings, southwestern Angola: a preliminary checklist, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 203) 13 (2), pp. 96-130 : 113

Lygodactylus angolensis Bocage, 1896

Angola Dwarf Day Gecko ( Fig. 17)

Material: NB517 (31).

Comment: Specimens of this taxon were first described as L. capensis by Bocage (1895), who subsequently assigned them to a new species, L. angolensis , described from Hanha, Benguela Province ( Bocage 1897). Schmidt (1933) described a new species of dwarf day gecko, L. laurae , which was later synonymized with L. angolensis ( Marques et al. 2018; Branch et al. 2019c). Widely distributed through Africa, localities in Angola were compiled by Marques et al. (2018) and include Chimboa da Hanha (= Capira); Cacondo (= Caconda), 2 km W of; Cubal; Cutenda, 3 km S of; Negola, 6 km S of; and Quimbango (Haacke, TM). The single BNP specimen conforms to the original description of L. angolensis in scalation and coloration, and is similar to specimens collected in the urban environments of Lubango (Baptista, unpub. data). Specimens collected at the same localities (BNP and Lubango) on other occasions have been assigned to L. bradfieldi ( Butler et al. 2019) , and these observations deserve further morphological and genetic comparisons.