Arkansas Herpetological Atlas 2019
This species is represented by 173 records from 24 sources: 115 museum (
), 0 literature (
), 0 research (
), and 38 observation (
), with 20 additional Trauth et al. (2004) locality points remaining unsourced (
). It has been museum vouchered for 36 of 75 counties (), with 3 additional counties having other forms of reported occurrence (). Years of collection range from 1928 to present.
This species occurs throughout much of the Ozark Highlands, northern Boston Mountains, Ouachita Mountains, and South Central Plains. Additional isolated records come from west of Searcy, White County; southeastern Arkansas County; and historically from northern Chicot County. It may have a much wider distribution than available records indicate. The questionable historic records attributed to Fort Smith, Sebastian County (USNM 489-490, undated), are likely in reference to the institution source rather than collection site, as no corroborating records from the Arkansas Valley exist for Arkansas nor Oklahoma (Sievert and Taggart, 2020).
