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‘Large’-eyed cave creature with ‘butterfly-shaped blotches’ discovered as new species

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The Erawan bent-toed gecko is a new species found in Thailand 's Loei Province .

The gecko has a brownish-gray coloring with three “butterfly-shaped blotches” on its back.

The new species was identified by its habitat, scale pattern, body shape, spikes, toes, coloring.