Lycodon pictus Janssen, Pham, Ngo, Le, Nguyen & Ziegler 2019

Lycodon pictus Janssen, Pham, Ngo, Le, Nguyen & Ziegler, 2019 Figs 1-3 New record for Vietnam (n = 1): VNMN 011227 (Fig. 1), Ha Lang, Cao Bang, Vietnam, Coordinates 22°42’50’’ N, 106°40’74’’ E, 960 m a.s.l., collected by Nguyen Quoc Huy on 18 May 2019. New record for China (n = 1): CIB 115609 (field no. GX2019069; Figs 2-3), Nonggang National Nature Reserve, Longzhou County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, 106°57’18.77” E, 22°28’3.92” N, 233 m a.s.l., collected by Ren Jin-Long and Zeng Fan-Xing on 8 July 2019. Description of the Chinese specimen: Head elongate, moderately distinct from neck, rather flattened, longer than wide, snout narrow, distinctly shorter than head width; nostril large, lateral, located in the middle of the nasal; eye large, pupils vertically elliptic; rostral triangular, much broader than high, hardly visible from above; nasal divided, narrowed medially; two internasals, anteriorly round, slightly wider than high, bordered by two large, hexagonal prefrontals posteriorly; frontal single, enlarged, pentagonal to hexagonal, narrowed posteriorly; parietals large, longer than wide, in contact with each other medially, with upper anterior and posterior temporals, paraparietal laterally and four nuchal scales posteriorly; paraparietals elongated, anterior part widened, about equal in length or slightly longer than posterior temporals; loreal 1/1, elongate, not entering orbit on right side, whereas the posterior corner entering orbit on the left side (Fig. 3C and D); supralabials 8/8, first and second in contact with nasal, third to fifth entering orbit, sixth largest, slightly higher than third on left side; infralabials 10/9, first pair in broad contact with each other, first to fifth/first to fourth in contact with anterior pair of chin shields; anterior and posterior pairs of chin shields elongate, second pair not meeting in midline; preocular 1/1, located on antero-upper part of eye; postoculars 2/2, lowermost smaller, bordering anterior temporals; anterior temporal 1/1, in ...