Trip report Murcia oktober 2011

[Aleksandar Simovic]

Very good report Booby!

[Matt Wilson]

Jeroen, If I remember correctly, the first and largest Timon was flushed from a bush and the others were caught while flipping, but we only caught 3 (2 adults, 1 juvenile) but I think we only saw 5-6 anyway during the entire week. However, the large-headed males were not seen (unfortunately) as according to the locals they seem to reduce their activity at this time, although as we found, adult females are still relatively active although nothing like in the spring months.
Although the photo below doesn't look too bad, it really did hurt more than any non-venomous snake, if this was a male it would have been a lot worse as Frank Deschandol once experienced with a nevadensis. They are awesome lizards, and how species like Blanus can be divided into new species and this is still a subspecies of Timon lepidus I will never understand! All hail Timon nevadensis!

[Carl Corbidge]

Here's my Murcia trip report http://carlcorbidgefieldherping.blogspot.com/

[Peter Oefinger]

Very nice reports! also some aweful Algyroides shots.
I'm still wondering about the P. hispanicus in the Sierra de Cazorla - they look like morphotype 2. Seems to be the eastern distribution limit of this species?