Review of the Gekko (Japonigekko) subpalmatus complex (Squamata, Sauria Gekkonidae), with description of a new species from China Author Lyu, Zhi-Tong 0000-0002-4891-3859 State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol / The Museum of Biology, School of Life Sciences / School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, PR China & lvzht @ foxmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4891 - 3859 & These authors contributed equally to this work lvzht@foxmail.com Author Lin, Chao-Yu State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol / The Museum of Biology, School of Life Sciences / School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, PR China & Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606 - 8502, Japan & These authors contributed equally to this work Author Ren, Jin-Long 0000-0003-4896-7600 Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, PR China & renjl @ cib. ac. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4896 - 7600 renjl@cib.ac.cn Author Jiang, Ke 0000-0003-3395-7362 Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, PR China & jiangke @ cib. ac. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3395 - 7362 jiangke@cib.ac.cn Author Zhang, Yin-Peng Michigan State University, East Lansing 48825, MI, United States Author Qi, Shuo 0000-0002-2924-6093 State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol / The Museum of Biology, School of Life Sciences / School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, PR China & qishuo 1992 @ outlook. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2924 - 6093 qishuo1992@outlook.com Author Wang, Jian 0000-0003-4249-7767 State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol / The Museum of Biology, School of Life Sciences / School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, PR China & wangj 397 @ mail. sysu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4249 - 7767 wangj397@mail.sysu.edu.cn text Zootaxa 2021 2021-04-06 4951 2 236 258 journal article 7405 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.2.2 9194d13f-ee38-4281-94fc-12ac35e93d17 1175-5326 4663976 D1C7A75F-FC48-4565-B39B-BFF131EA2585

TABLE 3. Comparisons of hemipenial morphology among Gekko (Japonigekko) subpalmatus complex.

	G. (J.) subpalmatus	G. (J.) melli	G. (J.) cib sp. nov.
Voucher ID	SYS r001381	SYS r000440	SYS r002398
length (mm)	6.1	9.4	6.0
width (mm)	3.9	5.7	4.5
length/SVL	11.21%	13.23%	9.62%
sulcus spermaticus curved or not	distinctly curved at	not curved	curved at truncus
	truncus
crotch of sulcus spermaticus	crotch of hemipenis	half of truncus	half of truncus
(Character 3, Fig. 3)
lateral welt of the base of the sulcus	well developed	developed	weakly developed
spermaticus (Ch. 1)
lateral welt visible or not from asulcate	visible	visible	invisible
side (Ch. 1)
direction of lateral welt (Ch. 1)	not in contact with	in contact with sulcus	in contact with sulcus lip
	sulcus lip	lip
boundary between naked area and	distinctly protruded	smooth	weakly protruded
ornamented area (Ch. 2)
ornamented area	extended to proximal 1/3	extended to proximal	extended to proximal
	of truncus	1/3 of truncus	1/2 of truncus
sulcus lip (Ch. 4)	distinctly protruded	distinctly protruded	moderately protruded
tongue-like welt (Ch. 5)	well developed	weakly developed	developed
apical folds (Ch. 6)	large, comma-shaped	small, arc-shaped	large, comma-shaped
apical folds in contact with each other	in contact	not in contact	not in contact
or not (Ch. 6)
area with undeveloped calyces on	small, boomerang-like	large, rounded	small, boomerang-like
asulcate side of the lobe (Ch. 7)