Lacerta rudis macromaculata, Sindaco & Jeremcenko, 2008

Barabanov, Andrei V. & Doronin, Igor V., 2020, Annotated list of amphibian and reptile taxa described by Ilya Sergeevich Darevsky (1924 - 2009), Zootaxa 4803 (1), pp. 152-168 : 159

38. Lacerta rudis macromaculata DAREVSKY (1967: 37, 104)

Holotype: ZISP 17940 , male, “vicinity of Akhalkalaki in Georgia, about 1800 m a.s.l. ”.

Etymology: Named after the Greek “ makros ”, long, large, and after Latin noun “ macula ”, spot, stain, referring to the characteristic large lateral spots in this subspecies.

Present name: Darevskia rudis macromaculata (Darevsky, 1967) fide Arribas et al. (2013), Doronin (2017).