Delma honlami Hoser, 2022.
Hoser, R. T. 2022. Delma honlami sp. nov.: A new species of Pygopodid legless lizard from South Australia (Squamata: Gekkota: Pygopodidae: Delma: Honlamopus). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 59:13-16. Published 15 August 2022. LSIDURN:LSID:ZOOBANK.ORG:PUB:2F0F9DD7-F462-4392-8616-B6622B5F4109 RAYMOND T. HOSER LSIDurn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:F9D74EB5-CFB5-49A0-8C7C-9F993B8504AE ABSTRACT Hoser (2017) confi rmed the previously underestimated diversity of Australian Pygopodids by formally naming six new genera, two new subgenera and 13 new species. This was followed up with three more species in Hoser (2018). This paper formally names as a new species, a population until now treated as a geographically and morphologically divergent population of Delma (Honlamopus) inornata Kluge, 1974, from South Australia. Delma honlami sp. nov. is restricted to grasslands west of the lower Murray River, near Lake Alexandrina. It is most readily separated from D inornata of Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland and the closely related D. megleesae Hoser, 2017 of the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales by the presence of a single pair of internasals, versus two pairs and a greyish, rather than brownish upper surface of the head. Keywords: Herpetology; taxonomy; nomenclature; Australia; South Australia; Delma; Honlamopus; inornata; megleesae; new species; honlami. Hard copies at: http://www.herp.net