Neotype designation and redescription of Tropidophorus guangxiensis Wen, 1992 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae), with description of a new subspecies from central South China

No female specimens have been recorded since its original description, and little is known about the morphological variation of the species. [...]the type specimens are presumed to be lost (Mr. Qi-Ping Hu, personal communication, 2021). According to information provided by Mr. Qi-Ping Hu (Director of the Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, former Department of Biology, Guangxi Medical University, Personal Communication, 2021), all three type specimens are presumed lost. Neotype: HNU GKJ-2019007 (adult female), collected on 21 August 2019 by Ke-Ji Guo, Qi-Lin Pan, and Yan-Wu Lu in Daming Mountain National Nature Reserve (N23°30 '1 " and E108°26'19"), Wuming County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, at an altitude of 1 244 m a.s.l. Paraneotype: HNU GKJ-2019009 (sub-adult male), collected on 22 August 2019 by Ke-Ji Guo, Qi-Lin Pan, and Jian-Chun Li in Daming Mountain National Nature Reserve (N23°48'3" and E108°45 '32 "), Wuming County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, at an altitude of 1 280 m a.s.l. Diagnosis: Upper head scales strongly striated; supranasal absent; frontonasals 2, joined, longer than wide; prefrontals 2, joined or separated by small scale; interparietal single and small, without small transparent spot; parietals separated by interparietal, posterolateral border surrounded by 5-6 scales on each side; nuchal scales absent; supraciliaries 8, supraciliary row complete along length of lateral edge of supraoculars; loreals 2; presuboculars 1, upper anterior and lower posterior margin slightly convex, and terminal pointed; supralabials 8; infralabials 6-7; shallow groove on loreal-labial border, from posterior corner of nasal across subocular obliquely downward to end of sixth supralabial; midbody scales in 28-29 rows; paravertebral scales 45-50, not widened; ventral scales 50-53; midbody ventral scales 27-29; ventral scales of neck keeled; scale rows at tenth subcaudal 11-13; lamellae under fourth toe 17-18; scales of limbs keeled above and below; supralabials and infralabials black, each scale with white spot center; chin and throat grayish white with black marble; ventral of neck gray, each scale white in middle forming longitudinal white stripes; venter yellowish white; underside of tail white, subcaudals darkened on both sides, forming longitudinal white stripes. Snout acute, rounded anteriorly; projecting beyond lower jaws; nostril laterally oriented, oval, closer to snout-tip than to orbit; head distinct from neck and bod