Wahlbergs Velvet Gecko

Vital Statistics

Latin Name

Homopholis Wahlbergii

Length_F

90 - 110 mm

Length_M

90 - 110 mm

Order

Squamata

Family

Gekkonidae

Description

The Wahlbergs Velvet Gecko is a large velvet gecko. The back is light to dark grey-brown, usually with irregular pale and dark crossbars, and often with a series of pale vertebral blotches. The snout lacks a black band. The belly is cream and is sometimes lightly spotted.

Class

Reptilia

Distribution

Zimbabwe and Southern Mozambique, into adjacent Zululand, the Northern Province and Eastern Botswana.

Breeding

A pair of large, hard-shelled eggs are laid in a rock crack or under bark.

Diet

Large insects, particularly grasshoppers and cockroaches, but they also eat termites and millipedes.