Indo-chinese forest lizard, Blue crested lizard
Calotes mystaceus, the Indo-Chinese forest lizard or blue crested lizard, is an agamid lizard found in China, South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Bengali: নীল-মাথা গিরিগিটি (Neel-matha girigiti), নীলা রক্তচোষা (proposed)।
Burmese: ပုတ်သင်ညို (Pote Thin Nyo)
Chinese: 白唇树蜥
English: Blue-crested lizard, Indo-Chinese bloodsucker, Indo-Chinese forest lizard, White-lipped calotes.
Hindi:girgit
Khmer (Cambodian): បង្គួយក្បាលខៀវខាងលិចទន្លេមេគង្គ
Lao: ກະປອມ gabpom
Thai: กะปอม/กิ้งก่า gabpawm/ginggaa
Vietnamese: ?
Cambodia, China (Yunnan), India (Mizoram), Laos, Myanmar (Tenasserim to Naypyitaw = Naypyitaw, Mandalay, and Kachin State ), Thailand (Chiang Saen) (north of the Isthmus of Kra), & Vietnam (South). And possibly found in Bangladesh (Chittagong Hill tracts), adjacent to Mizoram province of India. The Indochinese Bloodsucker is first documentation in Florida from Okeechobee County and Glades County.
Terrestrial & arboreal; diurnal; naturally found in forest, but can be found in treed neighborhoods and city parks.
Feeds on crickets, grasshoppers, moths, and other insects.
Oviparous; -----.
