East Kazakhstan (Zaysan Lake area), North-West China (Sinkiang, Ningxia, Gansu, and Nei Mongol province), and South Mongolia 

Species:

Eremias vermiculata  BLANFORD, 1875

Synonyms:

Eremias vermiculata   BLANFORD, 1875

Eremias (Rhabderemias) vermiculata  BISCHOFF, 1978

Poderces (Eremias) Pylzowi   STRAUCH, 1876

Common names:

Variegated Racerunner (English)
Wüstenrenner (German)

Types:

Syntypes: ZSI 5308 and 5340

Terra Typica:

Eastern Turkestan, Yarkend [Yarkand], Kashgaria, China (Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region).


Relevant taxonomic literature:

  • Blanford, W.T. (1875) -  Description of Eremias vermiculata. -  In: “List of Reptilia and Amphibia collected by the late Dr. Stoliczka in Kashmir, Ladák, eastern Turkestán, and Wakhán, with descriptions of new species”. - Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 44 (pt. 2, no. 3): 191-196.   

  • Guo, X. & Dai, X. & Chen, D. & Papenfuss, T.J. & Ananjeva, N.B. & Melnikov, D.A. & Wang, Y. (2011) -  Phylogeny and divergence times of some racerunner lizards (Lacertidae: Eremias) inferred from mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene segments. -  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 61 (2): 400–412.    

  • Orlova, V.F. & Poyarkov, N.A. & Chirikova, M.A. & Nazarov, R.A. & Munkhbataar, M. & Munkhbayar, K. & Terbish, K. (2017) -  MtDNA differentiation and taxonomy of Central Asian racerunners of Eremias multiocellata-E. przewalskii species complex (Squamata, Lacertidae) -  Zootaxa 4282 (1): 1-42.