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The genus Gloydius comprises 13 species of venomous Asian pit vipers (Wagner et al. 2016) that range from east of the Ural Mountains to Japan and the Ryukyu Islands (McDiarmid et al. 1999). The Gloydius halys (Pallas, 1776) complex occurs from Azerbaijan, Iran, through Central Asia to eastern Siberia, Mongolia, and China. Traditionally, Gloydius halys from Kyrgyzstan has been considered a subspecies— i.e., G. halys caraganus (Eichwald, 1831). However, given recent descriptions of cryptic taxa from Kyrgyzstan and unresolved phylogenetic relationships, they are called a species complex (Wagner et al. 2016). These snakes usually prey on small vertebrates, including rodents and lizards, but several kinds of invertebrates also were found in the digestive tract of this taxon (reviewed by Joger and Stümpel 2005). Racerunners (Lacertidae: Eremias) are widely distributed lizards occurring from southeastern Europe throughout most of the Asian continent (Ananjeva et al. 2006). Their systematic status is not yet fully resolved owing to their morphological resemblance to one another and the syntopic occurrence of several species (Pouyani et al. 2012, Liu et al. 2014, Poyarkov Jr. et al. 2014). These lizards often occur in the same localities as pit vipers (cf. Sindaco and Jeremcenko 2008) and are eaten by snakes of the G. halys complex (e.g., Yakovleva 1964). On 13 May 2016 we found a dead, freshly killed subadult male of the Gloydius halys complex near Jeti-Ögüz village (42.403° N, 78.221° E; 1888 m a.s.l.), Issyk-Kul Region in northeastern Kyrgyzstan. The snake was 285 mm long with a head that was 12 mm long and 9

Molecular identification of Eremias stummeri (Squamata: Lacertidae) as a prey for Gloydius halys complex (Serpentes: Viperidae) from Kyrgyzstan