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Lang's Crag Lizard
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(Endemic) SVL 70-90 mm; max SVL 106 mm male, 83 mm female.
This medium-sized crag lizard is similar in apperance to the
Drakensberg crag lizard, P. melanotus (below), but breeding males lack the yellow
flanks. It has small, granular scales on its flanks. There is a single row of
4-6 elongate temporal scales. The nasals are in contact, separating the rostral
and the frontonasal, which is undivided. There are usually four upper lagials
anterior to the subocular, and five lower labials. This species lacks occipitas.
Both sexes have 11-17 very small femoral pores. The back and head are olive-grey,
and heavily blotched and streaked in black. The back has numerous pale grey-green
blotches that form irregular crossbars. There are two large black blotches on
the side of the neck, followed by a series of 1-6 bright sky-blue blotches.
The belly is slate-grey, with dark blotches. The throat has a large, dark brown
patch, flanked by three narrow, brown stirpe. Biology: Found in small
colonies and may live in the same crack as the Drakensberg crag lixard. It eats
beetles and flying insects, as well as large amounts of the leaves and flowers
of everlasting daisies and other plants (SA
RDB, Restricted). Habitat: Rock outdroups in montane grassland. Range:
Summit of KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg (2 600-3 000 m).