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{{Short description|Species of snake}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = ''Lycodon flavomaculatus''
| image = Yellow spotted wolf snake Lycodon flavomaculatus by Ashahar Khan Amravati.jpg
| image_caption = '''''Lycodon flavomaculatus''''' at [[Amravati]], [[Maharashtra]]
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{Cite journal | author = Srinivasulu, C. | author2 = Srinivasulu, B. | author3 = Thakur, S. | author4 = Vyas, R. | name-list-style = amp | title = ''Lycodon flavomaculatus'' | journal = [[The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species]] | volume = 2013 | page = e.T172635A1356536 | publisher = [[IUCN]] | date = 2013 | url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/172635/0 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T172635A1356536.en | access-date = 10 January 2018| doi-access = free }}</ref>
| genus = Lycodon
| species = flavomaculatus
| authority = [[Frank Wall (herpetologist)|Wall]], 1907
| synonyms = *''Lycodon flavomaculatus'' [[Frank Wall (herpetologist)|Wall]], 1907
*''Ophites flavomaculatus'' <br/>– [[Frank Wall (herpetologist)|Wall]], 1923
*''Lycodon flavomaculatus'' <br/>– [[Malcolm Arthur Smith|M.A. Smith]], 1943<ref>The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref>
}}

'''''Lycodon flavomaculatus''''', commonly called the '''yellow-spotted wolf snake''', is a [[species]] of [[Colubridae|colubrid]] [[snake]] found in the [[Western Ghats]] of [[India]].

==Description==
Dorsally ''Lycodon flavimaculatus'' is shiny black with a series of yellow vertebral spots. Beside each spot whitish crossbars descend the flanks, beginning about the same width as the spots then widening. The spots are about 2 scales long, separated by intervals of 4 or 5 scales. The dorsal surface of the head is black, and the lips are white. The entire venter of the snake is white.

At first glance, it resembles ''[[Lampropeltis getula]]'', the Eastern kingsnake of the [[United States]].

The yellow-spotted wolf snake is a small snake. Adults are about 35 cm (13¾ inches) in length.

Dorsal scales in 17 rows on neck and at midbody, in 15 rows posteriorly. Ventrals 165–182, not angulate; anal plate divided; subcaudals 53–62, divided.<ref>[[Frank Wall (herpetologist)|Wall]], 1907, p. 613.</ref>

Head slightly distinct from neck. Snout rounded and somewhat flattened. Nine upper labials, of which only the first contacts the nasal.<ref>[[:fr:Indraneil Das|Das, I.]] 2002. ''A Photographic Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of India''. Ralph Curtis Books. Sanibel Island, Florida. p. 37. {{ISBN|978-0-88359-056-0}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Lanza, B. 1999. A new species of Lycodon from the Philippines, with a key to the genus (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae). Tropical Zoology 12: 89–104.
* [[Frank Wall (herpetologist)|Wall, F.]] 1907. Some new Asian snakes. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 17 (3): 612–618.
* [[Frank Wall (herpetologist)|Wall, F.]] 1923. A Hand-list of the Snakes of the Indian Empire. Part 2. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 29: 598–632.

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[[Category:Lycodon|flavomaculatus]]
[[Category:Endemic reptiles of India]]
[[Category:Reptiles described in 1907]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Frank Wall]]

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