Boiga drapiezii

The epithet, drapiezii, is in honor of Belgian naturalist Auguste Drapiez.^[3]

There are two known phases of B. drapiezii. The green phase has a marbled green body with a more robust head and width. The brown phase is much more slender with orange brown triangle-like bands across the body.^{[citation needed]} This species is in need of urgent review, with possibly subspecies awaiting discovery and subsequent description.^{[citation needed]}

B. drapiezii is found in Borneo, Indonesia, Peninsular Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, Vietnam.^[1]

The preferred natural habitat of B. drapiezii is forest, at altitudes of 80–900 m (260–2,950 ft).^[1]

The white-spotted cat snake is nocturnal and arboreal.^[1] It can often be found moving about on the forest floor in search of prey and travel.^{[citation needed]} It is found in tropical rainforest, sometimes on branches near streams.^{[citation needed]}

In the wild, the white-spotted cat snake preys upon frogs, geckos, and other small lizards,^[1] as well as insects, birds, and bird eggs.^[4]

B. drapiezii is oviparous.^[2]

• Boie F (1827). "Bemerkungen über Merrem's Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien, 1. Lieferung: Ophidier ". Isis von Oken, Jena 20: 508–566. (Dipsas drapiezii H. Boie, new species, p. 549). (in German and Latin).
• Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Dipsadomorphus drapiezii, pp. 74–75).
• Das I (2006). A Photographic Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Borneo. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 144 pp. ISBN 0-88359-061-1. (Boiga drapiezii, p. 23).

• Gernot Vogel's Boiga species checklist

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