A specimen of genus Hebius was collected from Gaowangjie National Nature Reserve (28°41′36″N, 110°09′30″E; 212 m) in Hunan Province on May 24, 2023. Through comparison of morphological characteris-tics, it was found that the reptile species was in accord with the morphological description of Hebius maxi-mus. The Bayesian phylogenetic tree of Hebius based on mitochondrial cytb genes showed that the specimen was clustered into a branch with H. maximus, with a genetic distance of 1.7%~2.2%. Based on these analy-ses, the specimen can be identified as H. maximus. At the same time, according to the reported distribution of H. maximus in China, it proved to be a new record in Hunan. Therefore, up to now there are eight species of genus Hebius recorded in Hunan Province.