Appearances often deceive in racerunners: integrative approach reveals two new species of Eremias (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Pakistan Author Masroor, Rafaqat 0000-0001-6248-546X Zoological Sciences Division, Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Garden Avenue, Shakarparian, Islamabad- 44000, Pakistan. rafaqat. masroor 78 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6248 - 546 X & Department of Zoology, University of Peshawar, Peshawar. m _ khisroon @ uop. edu. pk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0495 - 4173 Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. rafaqat.masroor78@gmail.com Author Khan, Muazzam Ali Author Nadeem, Muhammad Sajid Department of Zoology, PMAS-Arid Agricultural University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Author Amir, Shabir Ali 0000-0001-6248-546X Zoological Sciences Division, Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Garden Avenue, Shakarparian, Islamabad- 44000, Pakistan. rafaqat. masroor 78 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6248 - 546 X rafaqat.masroor78@gmail.com Author Khisroon, Muhammad 0000-0002-0495-4173 Department of Zoology, University of Peshawar, Peshawar. m _ khisroon @ uop. edu. pk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0495 - 4173 Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. m_khisroon@uop.edu.pk Author Jablonski, Daniel 0000-0002-5394-0114 Department of Zoology, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 6, Mlynská dolina, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia. Corresponding author. daniel. jablonski @ uniba. sk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5394 - 0114 daniel.jablonski@uniba.sk text Zootaxa 2022 2022-08-15 5175 1 55 87 journal article 123826 10.11646/zootaxa.5175.1.3 fd1e7a6b-e5d8-4b4d-b12b-3fd1fdcb6bc6 1175-5326 7003222 707F9BA8-81E2-4CF4-AEE8-AF2953BF1699

TABLE 2. Morphometric and meristic data of the type series of Eremias (Aspidorhinus) rafiqi sp. nov. including ratios of important characters. For abbreviation of characters, see material and methods (N/A = data not available, + = in contact, - = separated, R= regenerated, TB= tail broken).

PMNH	856	855	857	859	861	837	4058
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Types	Holotype	Paratype	Paratype	Paratype	Paratype	Paratype	Paratype
Sex	Male	Male	Male	Male	Male	Male	Female
Age	Adult	Adult	Adult	Adult	Adult	Juvenile	Adult
Metric data
SVL	99.3	92.2	78.5	80.0	84.5	44.8	98.1
TL	168.0	120.0 R	118.5 R	135.0	152.3	TB	121.4 R
SVL/TL	0.6	N/A	N/A	0.6	0.6	N/A	N/A
HL	26.9	25.5	22.1	21.6	23.3	13.1	28.8
HW	15.5	13.3	12.1	12.2	13.2	6.7	14.5
HW/HL	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5
HH	13.8	12.0	10.0	10.4	10.3	5.4	11.5
HL/SVL	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
HH/HW	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.8
TrL	42.5	38.2	34.5	37.8	37.7	20.3	42.2
TrL/SVL	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.4
HLL	66.8	57.1	47.6	48.5	50.6	28.2	56.0
EL	6.7	6.5	6.1	6.4	6.3	4.4	6.6
EED	7.9	7.1	6.1	6.1	6.2	3.0	6.5
NL	12.4	11.3	9.4	10.2	10.7	5.4	13.8
TD	5.1	4.5	4.7	4.6	4.8	2.7	5.2
IOR	10.8	10.0	8.8	8.4	8.5	6.3	9.8
FL	20.3	19.0	15.7	15.4	15.8	7.2	17.0
CL	20.4	19.3	16.5	17.3	17.3	8.1	17.8
HLL/SVL	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6
FLL	37.3	33.3	35.3	35.8	31.7	15.6	38.1
FLL/HLL	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.7
HRL	25.2	17.1	22.3	22.1	17.1	11.1	21.3
LFPR	19.3	19.6	15.9	15.3	15.8	8.4	18.5
LFPS	2.4	1.8	0.3	1.9	1.9	1.1	2.2
FrL	6.3	6.3	5.4	5.5	6.1	3.4	6.5