coleonyxconnoisseur's Identifications

Lifer! And hardly 1:30 after stepping off of the plane (and 0:05 after reaching the house where I was visiting to help my family move. Flipped under a slab of decorative concrete, and likely part of a significant population in the area.

Found with @birdnerd10; duplicate of one of his observations

DOR. Collected as I couldn’t confidently ID it in the field (confounders were N. erythrogaster and L. rigida). ID is primarily based on remnant subcaudal patterning.

First representative of this species I encountered in the field, though I didn’t know it at the time. Found a DOR and then AOR just a few meters down the road, the first without even reentering my car.

DOR; apparently forgot to flip it over and move it off of the roadway (to prevent scavenger mortality).

Apparently reobserved 2024/06/05 15:07 with a refreshed pattern after some rains?? This is the second photo, which certainly seems to be of the same specimen.

An interesting though unintentional experiment.

AOR; third lifer of the day!

AFAIK this is the first observation of this species in BBSP on iNat, though their presence in the park (and specifically in its coastal prairie remnants) is no great surprise. Indeed, I’ve for a number of months targeted the species in the area, though I’ve yet to hunker down and walk the prairie trail repeatedly in optimal conditions as I expected it would take to observe it. Fortunately, a last-minute road cruise while driving through the area was an adequate substitute.