- Striped with lateral stripes. If you want to see something special, just have a look in Tula. This is the place to be for the differend kind of Diones. The breed not only on locality but also on morphs.
- Orange
(sunglow, this is in- and crossbreed with Chersky Tiger, F1 is super red (sunrise)),
- Tenebrosa Blotched and Patternless, Tiger and Chersky.
- Tiger - is Chersky
complex, its have some differences from "classic" variant. Heterozygoot
for super red.
- Blotched regular pattern, called Chess.
The Nigrita (melanistic) is now widely accepted. Tthese black variant Nigrita have been (re-)discovered in the North Caucasus in the surroundings of the city Mozdok. But in the Netherlands was a snakeholder 25 years ago, who has a complete black, without any pattern, Dione in his collection, It was a big one to, 130cm. Of course that was a rare specimen of the Nigrita. It seems to be an endemic group.
The Tenebrosa is a very dark (grey/black) variant, sometimes with a blotched pattern, sometimes patternless. Seeings East Kazakstan. Some breeders have experienced that the adult colour is in the 3th year total. The offsprings are born with a normal blotched/striped pattern. That will vanished troughout the years.
Special
about the Diones is that these coloured specimens are more rare then for example
the OOreocryptophis porphyraceus laticinctus and Oreocryptophis
porphyraceus vaillantior the Rhynchophis Boulengeri (all of
them are in our collection). The Laticinctus is very famous and is on many
"wishlists", but the Elaphe
dione orange (sunglow) is unknown, and ........... more expensive. There
are at most 8 red diones in the world.