Micrablepharus maximiliani (Reinhardt & Luetken , 1862)

Uchoa, Lucas Rafael, Delfim, Fagner Ribeiro, Mesquita, Daniel Oliveira, Colli, Guarino Rinaldi, Garda, Adrian Antonio & Guedes, Thais B., 2022, Lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Caatinga, northeastern Brazil: Detailed and updated overview, Vertebrate Zoology 72, pp. 599-659 : 599

Micrablepharus maximiliani (Reinhardt & Luetken, 1862)

Figs 6.1 and 15

Type locality.

Municipality of Maruim, state of Sergipe, Brazil.

Distribution.

In the Caatinga it is registered in the states of Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, and Sergipe. It is widespread in the Caatinga and occurs along all ecoregions (Table 1 ; Appendix S3). Distributed in low to high elevation areas (17-1,008 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 20 to 28°C, and average annual rainfall between 532 and 1,573 mm.

Ecological notes.

Terrestrial and diurnal ( Rodrigues 1996a). It is found mainly in open areas, sandy soils and among litter, but also inside termite mounds, among scattered grasses or herbaceous beach vegetation, and in rocky outcrops ( Freire 1996; Rodrigues 1996a, 2003; Mesquita et al. 2006; Silva et al. 2006; Couto-Ferreira et al. 2011). Diet based mainly on arthropods, being Orthoptera , Homoptera and Araneae the most representative items ( Vitt 1991; Dal Vechio et al. 2014). Oviparous, the female usually lays two eggs at a time ( Mesquita and Colli 2010; Dal Vechio et al. 2014).

Figures

Figure 6. Lizards recorded in the Caatinga region. 6.1 Micrablepharus maximiliani; 6.2 Nothobachia ablephara; 6.3 Procellosaurinus erythrocercus; 6.4 Procellosaurinus tetradactylus; 6.5 Psilops mucugensis; 6.6 Psilops paeminosus; 6.7 Scriptosaura catimbau, and 6.8 Stenolepis ridleyi. Photograph credits: Mauro Teixeira (6.2, 6.4, 6.6), Marco A. Freitas (6.8), Adrian Garda (6.1, 6.3, 6.5, 6.7).