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Gekko monarchus
This lizard has the typical body build of the genus Gekko - it appears flat and has a rough skin with small bumps on its back. Their tails regenerate once dropped, as with most gecko species. The regenerated tail will never look the same as the original (it has a different texture and slightly odd color). Similar to common house geckos and dtellas, males make quiet clicking sounds when courting a female. (Wikipedia, general species account).
Individuals have a W spot on the backs of their heads, typical for this species. Monarch geckos are strictly insectivorous, feeding on various types of insects (roaches, crickets, flies, spiders, even wasps). The spotted house gecko belongs to gecko found in the Malay Peninsula (including southern Thailand and Singapore), some smaller Malaysian islands, Borneo (Brunei, East Malaysia and Kalimantan), the Philippines, many Indonesian islands including Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi, and New Guinea (Wikipedia, general species account). (Wikipedia, general species account).