Terry,

When i say "East China" i mean - Yangtse Valley, yes, it is. Right side of this river.

Xian can be found near big mountain system, not very mountaineous by self. I also know about diones from Chengdu point, this is more southern place.

I have theiory about intergradation zone between diones with more or less "normal" coloration and pattern sheme from former USSR asian republics, similiar mongolian variations and more or less typical chinese variation, that take place in this place. Here we can meet results of crossbreeding, that show to us conjucted and bigger blotches, more grey coloration etc.

You can try my site and site of Wim and Gidi Van de Belt. Also you can try site of Litteratura Serpentium, where was posted article of Sergei Ryabov from 2000 year about Z. persicus (it contain foto of Nigrita because it is very similiar).

No, it is not so small, a little smaller than chinese/korean ones. This is dont problem - swith it to mice, but several first weeks you need to force feed almost all offsprings. All wild specimens have digestion problems with mices and specific cloacal infection, that you cant threat successfully.

Ivan
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Ivan Arinin
Tula Exotarium
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Site: www.edione.narod.ru
E.g. guttata (many variations)
E.g. emoryi
E.g. rosacea

E. persica black 3.4
E. persica brown 2.1
E. longissima 4.6
E. situla 3.3
E. dione 54 (many variations)
E. bimaculata 4.3

E. o. obsoleta yellow 2.2
E. o. lindheimeri White Sided 2.2.
E. o. lindheimeri Leucistic 1.2
E. o. lindheimeri Black Orange 2.2
E. o. quadrivittata Deckerti 2.2
E. o. quadrivittata Williamsi 1.0
E. o. rossalleni 2.2

Langaha madagascariensis 1.1
O. t. friesi 1.1
O. t. ssp. Blue Beauty 1.1

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