Afroedura karroica, Hewitt, 1925

Jacobsen, Niels H. G., Kuhn, Arianna L., Jackman, Todd R. & Bauer, Aaron M., 2014, A phylogenetic analysis of the southern African gecko genus Afroedura Loveridge (Squamata: Gekkonidae), with the description of nine new species from Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa, Zootaxa 3846 (4), pp. 451-501 : 470

A. karroica ( Hewitt, 1925)

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Distribution. Karoo of the central-western Eastern Cape and adjacent areas of the Northern and Western Cape provinces (Bauer 2014d) ( Fig. 4 ).

Remarks. Both A. bogerti and A. halli were previously treated as subspecies of A. karroica ( Loveridge 1944, 1947; Wermuth 1965; Kluge 2001).

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FIGURE 3. Representatives of the species groups of Afroedura. (A) A. hawequensis group: A. hawequensis (Limietberg, Western Cape, South Africa); (B) A. transvaalica group: A. bogerti (Iona National Park, Namibe Province, Angola); (C) A. transvaalica group: A. transvaalica (30 km west of Musina, Limpopo, South Africa); (D) A. africana group: A. karroica (Sneeuberg Mountains, Eastern Cape, South Africa); (E) A. nivari a group: A. pondolia (Durban, ZwaZulu-Natal, South Africa). Note the strongly verticillate original tail base in A. transvaalica and the bulbous regenerated tail in A. hawequensis. Photo A: Marius Burger, Photos B – C, E: Johan Marais, Photo D: Stuart V. Nielsen.

FIGURE 4. Map of southern Africa showing the approximate distributional ranges of previously described species of Afroedura. Red dots represent localities sampled for the genetic portion of the study. Ranges based on Branch (1998) and Bates et al. (2014) as well as unpublished data. Taxon names follow the conclusions of this paper. Area demarcated by a dashed line is presented in more detail in Figure 6.