Description
Lipinia microcerca are diurnal, arboreal micro tree skinks from mainland Southeast Asia. They are only 2-3 inches at adult size and retain their striking black-and-white striped pattern and bright orange tail through adulthood. They use trunks, branches, cork, plants, and vertical structure, making them a great vivarium display species.
Their natural history is still not widely documented in the hobby, but field sources describe them as mainly arboreal and active by day in lowland and hilly habitats. Because captive experience is still limited, they are best kept singly, as pairs, or in carefully monitored small groups with multiple basking areas, feeding stations, hides, and visual barriers. They must be kept in secure, well-planted enclosures designed for very small, agile skinks.
They do well with appropriately tiny feeders such as Drosophila melanogaster, bean beetles, springtails, small isopods, pinhead crickets, and other very small insects.
We are proud to be one of the first breeding this species in the U.S. hobby. Animals from Holotypica are raised with care and offered only once they are feeding well and established.
