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Eumeces laticeps
Features that distinguish the broadhead from the five-lined skink follows:
1. Body scales smooth, shiny and overlapping. (That places them in the family Scincidae).
2. Frontal scale rectangle shaped; supranasal scales present; lower eyelid without transparent disk.
3. Eight or nine upper labials; no postlabial or if present one or two small postlabials, the sixth labial is the first to contact the orbit
Source: http://www.webiocosm.com/webiocosmzoo/vertebrata/reptilia/squamata/scincidae/Eumeces/eumeceslaticepsfull.htm
Solon Dixon Education Center (Auburn University)
Andalusia, AL
For more information on this butterfly, see: http://www.bugguide.net/node/view/3255
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