Index: include/clang/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchers.h
===================================================================
--- include/clang/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchers.h
+++ include/clang/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchers.h
@@ -842,15 +842,6 @@
 /// \endcode
 const internal::VariadicDynCastAllOfMatcher<Stmt, ForStmt> forStmt;
 
-/// \brief Matches range-based for statements.
-///
-/// forRangeStmt() matches 'for (auto a : i)'
-/// \code
-///   int i[] =  {1, 2, 3}; for (auto a : i);
-///   for(int j = 0; j < 5; ++j);
-/// \endcode
-const internal::VariadicDynCastAllOfMatcher<Stmt, CXXForRangeStmt> forRangeStmt;
-
 /// \brief Matches the increment statement of a for loop.
 ///
 /// Example:
@@ -880,6 +871,29 @@
   return (Init != NULL && InnerMatcher.matches(*Init, Finder, Builder));
 }
 
+/// \brief Matches range-based for statements.
+///
+/// forRangeStmt() matches 'for (auto a : i)'
+/// \code
+///   int i[] =  {1, 2, 3}; for (auto a : i);
+///   for(int j = 0; j < 5; ++j);
+/// \endcode
+const internal::VariadicDynCastAllOfMatcher<Stmt, CXXForRangeStmt> forRangeStmt;
+
+/// \brief Matches the initialization statement of a for loop.
+///
+/// Example:
+///     forStmt(hasLoopVarStmt())
+/// matches 'int x' in
+/// \code
+///     for (int x : a) { }
+/// \endcode
+AST_MATCHER_P(CXXForRangeStmt, hasLoopVariable, internal::Matcher<VarDecl>,
+              InnerMatcher) {
+  const VarDecl *const Var = Node.getLoopVariable();
+  return (Var != NULL && InnerMatcher.matches(*Var, Finder, Builder));
+}
+
 /// \brief Matches while statements.
 ///
 /// Given
Index: unittests/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchersTest.cpp
===================================================================
--- unittests/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchersTest.cpp
+++ unittests/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchersTest.cpp
@@ -2339,6 +2339,11 @@
                       forStmt(hasLoopInit(anything()))));
 }
 
+TEST(For, ForRangeLoopInternals) {
+  EXPECT_TRUE(matches("void f(){ int a[] {1, 2}; for (int i : a); }",
+                      forRangeStmt(hasLoopVariable(anything()))));
+}
+
 TEST(For, NegativeForLoopInternals) {
   EXPECT_TRUE(notMatches("void f(){ for (int i = 0; ; ++i); }",
                          forStmt(hasCondition(expr()))));