Lowlands of Bulgaria and Romania, most eastern Poland, western to central Ukraine and western Russia. 

Subspecies:

Lacerta agilis chersonensis  ANDRZEJOWSKI, 1832

Synonyms:

Lacerta agilis euxinica  (fide BISCHOFF 1984)

Types:

Holotype: unlocated, Ukraine, Kherson, probably the author’s collection (fide I. Doronin, pers. comm.)

Terra Typica:

Cherson (Ukraine).


Relevant taxonomic literature:

  • Andrzejowski, A. (1832) -  Description of Lacerta agilis chersonensis. -  In: Reptilia inprimis Volhyniae. Podoliae, et Gubernii Chersonensis. - Nouveaux Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 2 : 320-346 Taf. XXII-XXIV (in Explicatio Tabularum erwähnt als XXI-XXIII !).   

  • Bischoff, W. (1988) -  Zur Verbreitung und Systematik der Zauneidechse, Lacerta agilis LINNAEUS, 1758. -  Mertensiella, Bonn, 1: 11-30.  

  • Zinenko, O.I. & Drabkin, P.L. & Rudyk, O.M. (2005) -  Contact zone between two subspecies of the Sand Lizard: Lacerta agilis exigua Eichw., 1831 and Lacerta agilis chersonensis Andr., 1832 in three regions of the Left-Bank Ukraine.  -  In: Ananjeva N. & O. Tsinenko (eds.): Herpetologia Petropolitana. Proceedings of the 12th Ordinary General Meeting of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica, August 12–16, 2003, St. Petersburg, Russian Journal of Herpetology, 12 (Suppl.): 109-112.