Combinations

• Ophibolia micropholis — Cope, 1871 : 200 [subsequent combination]
• Coronella micropholis — Peracca, 1896: 9 [subsequent combination]
• Lampropeltis triangulum micropholis — Dunn & Bailey, 1939: 18 [subsequent combination]
• Lampropeltis doliata micropholis — Klauber, 1948: ll [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Lampropeltis triangulum gaigeae Dunn, 1937: 9
  • Holotype: UMMZ 57967, adult ♂, collected by H.T. Gaige on 24 March 1924.
  • Type locality: “Boquete, Chiriqui Province, Panama”.

• Lampropeltis triangulum andesiana Williams, 1978: 231
  • Holotype: USNM 151732, adult ♀, collected in 1962.
  • Type locality: “the hills near Cali, Valle, Colombia”.

Primary references

• Cope, E.D. 1860. Catalogue of the Colubridae in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with notes and descriptions of new species. Part 2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 241–266. BHL Reference page. 
• Williams, K.L. 1978. Systematics and natural history of the American milk snake Lampropeltis triangulum. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions In Biology And Geology 2. 258 pp. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Kornacker, P.M. 1999. Checklist and key to the snakes of Venezuela. PaKo-Verlag: Rheinbach, Germany. 270 pp.

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Lampropeltis micropholis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 16 May 2018.
• Rivas, G., Schargel, W., Urbina, N., Ramírez Pinilla, M., Lavin, P., Ines Hladki, A., Mendoza-Quijano, F. & Renjifo, J. 2022. IUCN: Lampropeltis micropholis  (Least Concern) (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T67662806A217811917. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T67662806A217811917.en. Accessed on 15 June 2023.