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Abstract
The natural history of the lizard Enyalius perditus was studied from August 2005 to July 2006, at Parque Estadual Nova Baden, in the municipality of Lambari, State of Minas Gerais, south-eastern Brazil. We found that E. perditus may be considered a semi-arboreal species, like other species in the genus, sleeping on vegetation (slim branches or large leaves) at night, possibly to minimize predation. Females with enlarged follicles or oviducal eggs were found from November to January and juveniles recruited at the end of the dry season and beginning of the rainy season, in October. The diet of this lizard is composed mainly of Lepidoptera larvae, Araneae and Formicidae. Females were larger than males, and juvenile coloration is similar to that of adult females.
Acknowledgements
We thank our friends Mario A. Sacramento and Diogo B. Provete for field assistance. Pedro L. Peloso, Jim Hesson, Teresa C.S. Avila-Pires and three anonymous reviewers for critically reading the text. We also thank the Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis for the capture and transportation license (no. 053/05-NUFAS/MG e 040/06-NUFAS-MG) and the Instituto Estadual de Florestas de Minas Gerais (IEF-MG) for the technical support. MJS is supported by fellowships from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq).