Hemibungarus gemianulis Peters, 1872 [Double-barred] Philippine False Coral Snake; Barred Coral Snake Hemibungarus gemianulis Peters, 1872:587.— Leviton, Brown, and Siler, 2014:495.— Supsup, Puna, Asis, Redoblado, Panaguinit, Guinto, Rico, Diesmos, Brown, and Mallari, 2016:169. Hemibungarus calligaster, Taylor, 1922a:269, pl. 33, figs. 1–2, pl. 34, figs. 1–2 (part).— Castoe et al., 2007:809 et seq. (part)— Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:319 (part). Calliophis calligaster gemianulis, Leviton, 1964d:545.— Gaulke and Altenbach, 1994:63.— Ferner, Brown, Sison, and Kennedy, 2001:54 [21]. Hemibungarus calligaster gemianulis, Gaulke, 2011:320–321, figs. 219–221. TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— “ Philippine Ids. ” Holotype: ZMB 7405 (fide Bauer Bauer et al. [1995:76]). PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION (ENDEMIC) (Map 15D [p. 126]).— Cebu, Guimaras, Masbate, Negros (Prov.: Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental), Panay (Prov.: Aklan, Antique, Iloilo). CONSERVATION STATUS [IUCN].— The conservation status of Hemibungarus calligaster has not been assessed for the IUCN Red List [2016] ver. 3.1, but IUCN notes that it is listed in the Catalogue of Life.

Published as part of Leviton, Alan E., Siler, Cameron D., Weinell, Jeffrey L. & Brown, Rafe M., 2018, Synopsis of the Snakes of the Philippines A Synthesis of Data from Biodiversity Repositories, Field Studies, and the Literature, pp. 399-568 in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Oxford, England) (Oxford, England) 64 (14) on page 455, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11512589