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| image = Banded Racer Argyrogena fasciolata by Ashahar alias Krishna Khan.jpg<br />
| image_caption = Wild specimen from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]<br />
| status = LC<br />
| status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
| genus = Lycodon<br />
| species = fasciolatus<br />
| authority = ([[George Shaw (biologist)|Shaw]], 1802)<br />
| synonyms = *''Coluber fasciolatus'' <small>[[George Shaw (biologist)|Shaw]], 1802</small><br />
*''Coluber hebe'' <small>[[François Marie Daudin|Daudin]], 1803</small><br />
*''Coluber curvirostris'' <small>[[Theodore Edward Cantor|Cantor]], 1839</small><br />
*''Coryphodon fasciolatus'' <small>[[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1858</small><br />
*''Tyria fasciolata'' <small>[[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1862</small><br />
*''Zamenis fasciolatus'' <small>[[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1864</small><br />
*''Argyrogena rostrata'' <small>[[Franz Werner|Werner]], 1924</small><br />
*''Argyrogena fasciolata'' <small>Wilson, 1967</small><ref>The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref><ref>[[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger, G.A.]] 1893. ''Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Volume I''. London.</ref><br />
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The '''banded wolf snake''', ('''''Lycodon fasciolatus''''') is a species of [[colubrid]] snake. Sometimes called the banded racer, that name is used for snakes in the genus ''Platyceps''.<br />
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==Geographic range==<br />
It is found in [[India]] except for [[North Bengal]], [[Tamil Nadu]] and [[Kashmir]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiansnakes.org/Snakedatabase/Racers/Banded_Racer/banded-racer.html |title=Argyrogena fasciolata (Shaw, 1802) Banded Racer |publisher=Indian Snakes |accessdate=21 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705133931/http://www.indiansnakes.org/Snakedatabase/Racers/Banded_Racer/banded-racer.html |archivedate=5 July 2013 }}</ref> [[Sri Lanka]], [[Pakistan]], [[Nepal]] and [[Bangladesh]].<br />
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==Description==<br />
Snout obtuse, curved and prominent; rostral large, broader than wide, the portion visible from above more than half its length from the frontal; suture between the internasals as long as that between the prefrontals or a little shorter; frontal nearly as long as its distance from the end of the snout, or as the parietals; loreal as long as deep or longer than deep; one pre-ocular, usually with a small subocular below; two or three postoculars; temporals 2+2 or 2+3; upper labials 8, fourth and fifth entering the eye; 4 or 5 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields; posterior chin-shields nearly as long as the anterior, separated from each other by two or three series of scales. Dorsals smooth, in 21 or 23 rows. Ventrals 197–225; anal divided; subcaudals 73–88. Yellowish or brownish olive above, with narrow white, brown, and black variegated cross bands on the anterior half of the body; these bands may entirely disappear in the adult; lower parts uniform yellowish.<ref>Boulenger, G. A. (1890) Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.</ref><br />
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Total length 1060&nbsp;mm (3.5 feet); tail 220&nbsp;mm (8.5 inches).<br />
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Shaw's original description of the species was based on a plate in Russell, Ind. Serp. (1796).<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
*Shaw, G. 1802 General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Vol.3, part 1 + 2. G. Kearsley, Thomas Davison, London: 313–615<br />
*Wilson, Larry David 1967 Generic reallocation and review of ''Coluber fasciolatus'' Shaw (Serpentes: Colubridae) Herpetologica 23 (4): 260–275<br />
*Revealing two centuries of confusion:new insights on nomenclature and systematic position of/ v deepak 2021 https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.71.e64345<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/vishal-pd/4433030650/ Photo of ''Argyrogena fasciolata''] on Flickr<br />
*[http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?enlarge=0000+0000+1110+0835 Photo of ''Argyrogena fasciolata''] on Cal Photos<br />
*[http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?enlarge=0000+0000+1211+1886 Image of a juvenile ''Argyrogena fasciolata'']<br />
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[[Category:Lycodon]]<br />
[[Category:Taxa named by George Shaw]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles described in 1802]]<br />
[[Category:Snakes of India]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles of Pakistan]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles of Nepal]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles of Bangladesh]]<br />
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