Alopoglossus festae is a species of lizard in the family Alopoglossidae. The species is native to northwestern South America.
Etymology The specific name, festae, is in honor of Italian zoologist Enrico Festa.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Alopoglossus festae, p. 89).
Geographic range A. festae is found in southwestern Colombia and adjacent northwestern Ecuador.
Habitat The preferred habitat of A. festae is forest at altitudes of .
Reproduction A. festae is oviparous.
References
Further reading Artega A, Pyron RA, Peñafiel N, Romero-Barreto P, Culebras J, Bustamante L, Yánez-Muñoz MH, Guayasamin JM (2016). "Comparative Phylogeography Reveals Cryptic Diversity and Repeated Patterns of Cladogenesis for Amphibians and Reptiles in Northwestern Ecuador". PLoS ONE 11 (4): e0151746. Hernández-Morales C, Sturaro MJ, Sales-Nunes P, Lotzkat S, Peloso PLV (2020). "A species-level total evidence phylogeny of the microteiid lizard family Alopoglossidae (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea)". Cladistics 36 (3): 301–321. Peracca MG (1896). "Descrizione di un nuovo genere e di una nuova specie di Teiidae raccolta nel Darien dal dott. E. Festa". Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Regia Università di Torino 11 (235): 1-4. (Diastemalepis festae, new species, pp. 2–4, Figures 1–5). (in Italian). Ruibal R (1952). "Revisionary Studies of some South American Teiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 106: 475–529. (Alopoglossus festae, pp. 502–505).