First record of the Whipala Sipo (<i>Chironius whipala</i>) in Peru

A revision of Chironius specimens housed in the herpetological collection of the Centro de Ornitologa y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI) in Lima, Per, led to the recognition of the recently described Whipala Sipo (Chironius whipala), presently known only from Bolivia.We herein report the first record of C. whipala in Per.On 7 May 2014, Karla Garca collected an adult male C. whipala (CORBIDI 14688) (Figs.1-3) during an environmental impact study (Programa de Monitoreo Biolgico COGA) for the gas pipeline of Camisea in Capire, Camanti District, Quispincanchi Province, Cusco Department, Per (-13.42285,-70.90338; elev.1,240 m asl).This specimen represents the first record of C. whipala in Peru, extending the known range by about 750 km NW from the type locality at Chaquisacha, Carrasco National Park, Cochabamba Department, Bolivia (Fig. 4).The specimen was identified according to the following diagnostic characters of C. whipala (Quinteros-Muoz et al. 2024) (CORBIDI 14688 characters in parentheses): (1) dorsal scale formula 10-10-8 in males (10-10-8); (2) apical pits absent; (3) paravertebral keels present; (4) ventrals 149-151 in males (151); (5) subcaudals 117-122 in males (114); (6) cloacal plate single; (7) loreal slightly longer than high; (8) adults emerald green, unmarked; (9) black postocular stripe absent; (10) snout yellow; ( 11) ventrals and subcaudals yellowish or greenish, immaculate; (12) hemipenis short (~2X as long as wide), cylindrical, unilobed, with an undivided sulcus spermaticus and base covered with tiny spines (Fig. 3).