Inhabits the Carpathians (Carpathian mountain region) in the eastern part of Central Europe: in central, eastern and northern Romania, eastern Slovakia, northeastern Hungary, Transcarpathian and Carpathian Ukraine and southeastern Poland. In Romania in Transylvania, the Carpathian Mountains, including the Transylvanian Alps. In Ukraine, they inhabit the Transcarpathian region, the western parts of the Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. 

Subspecies:

Lacerta agilis transsylvanica  KIMAKOVICZ in BIELZ, 1888

Synonyms:

Lacerta viridis var. transsylvanica  KIMAKOVICZ in BIELZ, 1888

Lacerta agilis transsylvanica   DORONIN et al. 2026

Types:

Neotype (by Doronin et al., 2026): ZISP 20484.1 (Fig. 8), adult male, Romania, Transylvania, Brasov, Predeal, 45.5042 N, 25.5824 E, 1090 m above sea level, May 28, 1995, leg. S.N. Litvinchuk.

Terra Typica:

Mezőség in Transylvania (Transylvania, Romania).


Taxonomic notes:

The taxon was originally described in 1888 by MAURICE von KIMAKOVICZ in a work by the naturalist EDUARD ALBERT BIELZ as Lacerta viridis var. transsylvanica (at the time, it was still mistakenly classified as a variety of the Eastern Green Lizard, Lacerta viridis).
In the course of modern phylogeographic and morphological studies, the name was reactivated and recombined. Populations from the Carpathian and Tatra regions are now classified as this distinct subspecies of the Sand Lizard (Lacerta agilis transsylvanica comb. n.).


Relevant taxonomic literature:

  • Bielz, E.A. (1888) -  Die Fauna der Wirbelthiere Siebenbürgens nach ihrem gegenwärtigen Bestanden. -  Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften in Hermannstadt, 38: 15-120.  

  • Doronin I.V. & Doronina M.A. & Milto K.D. & Lotiev K.Yu. & Lukonina S.A. & Mazanaeva L.F. (2026) -  Genetic Variation, Phylogeography and Systematics of Lacerta agilis Linnaeus, 1758 (Lacertidae, Sauria). -  Russian Journal оf Zoology, 105 (9): 66–101.  

    Доронин И. В., Доронина М. А., Мильто К. Д., Лотиев К. Ю., Луконина С. А., Мазанаева Л. Ф. (2026) -  Генетическая изменчивость, филогеография и систематика прыткой ящерицы, Lacerta agilis Linnaeus, 1758 (Lacertidae, Sauria). -  ООЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ ЖУРНАЛ, 105 (9): 66–101.