This study assessed the diet of the Neotropical lizard Liolaemus polystictus from Huancavelica region in the Peruvian central Andes. The diet composition was identified from 54 sample stomach contents. Percentage of vegetable content was higher than the animal one (V% animal content= 22.97 and V% vegetable content= 77.03), and arthropods were the highest animal content with ten foods items. Within the animal content, Coleoptera were the most representative (N%= 32.05, FO= 59.26 and V%= 41.36%). No animal category showed high IRI values to be considered fundamental. There were not significant differences on prey selection between males, females and juveniles, and on vegetal volumetric contents between adults and juveniles. However, vegetal volumetric contents were significantly different between males and females. Significant differences were found between prey length, width and volume an...

This study assessed the diet of the Neotropical lizard Liolaemus polystictus from Huancavelica region in the Peruvian central Andes. The diet composition was identified from 54 sample stomach contents. Percentage of vegetable content was higher than the animal one (V% animal content= 22.97 and V% vegetable content= 77.03), and arthropods were the highest animal content with ten foods items. Within the animal content, Coleoptera were the most representative (N%= 32.05, FO= 59.26 and V%= 41.36%). No animal category showed high IRI values to be considered fundamental. There were not significant differences on prey selection between males, females and juveniles, and on vegetal volumetric contents between adults and juveniles. However, vegetal volumetric contents were significantly different between males and females. Significant differences were found between prey length, width and volume an...

Es conocido especies emparentadas presentan semejanzas en la selección de temperaturas corporales, a pesar de encontrarse en hábitats distintos, sobretodo en grupos con amplia distribución. Microlophus tigris es una especie endémica del Perú, distribuida latitudinalmente desde el norte cerca de la ciudad de Trujillo hasta Arequipa en el sur; altitudinalmente puede encontrársele desde próximo al nivel del mar en formaciones vegetales de lomas hasta los 2800m en las estribaciones andinas. Teniendo presente que tanto la latitud como la altitud pueden tener efecto sobre la selección de temperaturas corporales en los saurios, se seleccionaron dos poblaciones a similar latitud pero diferente altitud en el departamento de Lima (Perú), la diferencia entre la primera localidad, Mangomarca, y la segunda, San Bartolomé, fue de 1500m. Al ser los hábitats distintos se esperaron respuestas ...