The Six-lined Racerunner is characterized by four limbs, an ear opening on each side of the head, smooth granular scales on the back which are much smaller than those on the belly, scales on the belly rectangular in eight rows, and seven light stripes running down the back, one in the middle and three on each side. The stripes range from greenish blue to yellow and may be indistinct in older adult males. Areas between the stripes vary from brown to dark green. The throat, chest, and forward sides of the body are suffused with light green or bluish green, particularly in males. The tail is brownish. Adult males have a broader head than females, and females are heavier bodied.
Adults normally 152-203 mm (6-8 inches) in total length. The largest specimen from Kansas is a male (KU 220236) from Cherokee County with a snout-vent length of 82 mm and a total length of 233 mm (91⁄8 inches) collected by Randall S. Reiserer on 18 May 1992. The maximum length throughout the range is 266.7 mm (10½ inches) (Powell et al., 2016).
This lizard occurs throughout Kansas, and may particularly abundant in areas characterized by loose soils and patchy open (or rocky) vegetation. A quick and alert species, they are most easily taken under cover early in the morning.
As their name implies, they are quick and are usually just a blur when you encounter them. These lizards are easiest to observe by turning cover on cool mornings. They are most common in areas with sandy soils.
The Six-lined Racerunner is a lizard of dry, open, sandy areas with little leafy vegetation. It also inhabits open, rocky, grazed, and cultivated regions. Fitch (1958) studied this species in Douglas County and observed that its population decreased when the amount of available open area was reduced by leafy plant growth. Werth (1972) observed the Six-lined Racerunner with three other species of lizards in Ellis County and found it abundant in sandy basins. In Harvey County, Platt (1985) demonstrated that this lizard was most abundant in natural sand prairie.
To remain active, this lizard requires warmer weather than most other Kansas species. It has an optimal air temperature near 93°F. Werth (1972) found it active from May to August in Ellis County, and Fitch (1958) recorded its yearly activity period as May to September in northeastern Kansas. This species spends the colder half of the year inactive beneath the ground.
Six-lined Racerunners are fast, nervous animals active only during the day; in western Kansas, they exhibit a peak of activity from 1200 to 1400 hours. However, Fitch (1958) found that in Douglas County their daily activity period extends from 0800 to 1500 hours and depends on the individual lizard and the prevailing temperature. During extreme heat, this lizard rests in the shade or in small burrows.
In eastern Kansas, these reptiles have a home range of one-fourth to one-fifth of an acre (Fitch, 1958). Werth (1972) reported a much smaller home range for Six-lined Racerunners in western Kansas. This species is not territorial.
Six-lined Racerunners mate in May and June. Courtship initially involves the male displaying his brightly colored throat and chest. He bites the female on the neck or flank, pinions her, and twists his rear body around and under her tail until their cloacal openings meet. Copulation is brief, lasting only a few minutes. After the male releases the female, he may follow her with his tail arched and his cloaca pressed to the ground.
Female Six-lined Racerunners nest in June or July and may produce more than one clutch of eggs per season. The eggs are buried a few inches beneath sandy soil and hatch in two months. Each female lays one to eight white eggs (Fitch, 1985), with an average of three per clutch.
Hartman (1906) summarized that due to their speed, no insect could escape them, except by flight. He reported grasshoppers, cockroaches, tiger-beetles, and other beetles as prey items. Fitch (1958) and Werth (1972) listed spiders, snails, and small insects as being eaten by this lizard. Burt (1928) found that grasshoppers, moths, and spiders made up 75 percent of their diet.
Predators of the Six-lined Racerunner include snakes, birds, and small mammals. Knight and Collins (1977) reported predation on this lizard by a Milk Snake and a Western Rattlesnake in Cheyenne County.
First reported in Kansas by Hallowell (1857) based on a specimen procured by Fort Riley surgeon William A. Hammond in the vicinity of Fort Riley, Riley County. Bocourt (1879) gives the following account (page 278; translated from French) "The Museum [National Museum of Natural History (Paris)] has nine copies of this variety, which, according to the method of coloration, show notable differences: the smallest, from Kansas, was donated as Cnemidophorus gularis by the Academy of Philadelphia; his body is crossed by six yellow longitudinal lines; the interval between them is decorated with small black circular lines, the lower regions are of a pale yellow." The earliest possibly existing specimen (Museum of Comparative Zoology [MCZ 2458]) was collected from "Leavenworth or Topeka, Kan" in May 1871. The MCZ catalog states that the specimen was sent "to Butantan 5/31/29", the Instituto Butantan (Sao Paulo, Brazil) burned in 2010 destroying their collection of more than 80,000 herpetological specimens. It is uncertain if MCZ 2458 still exists.
Cragin (1885) reported a specimen from McPherson County (as Cnemidophorus tessellatus [=Aspidoscelis tessellatus]) collected by Dr. John Rundstrom.
When Reeder (2002) resurrected Aspidoscelis (for the former Cnemidophorus sexlineatus, and other extralimital species), he treated it as feminine and amended the ending of the specific name, as A. sexlineata. Subsequently, Tucker et al., (2016) argued that Aspidoscelis was in fact masculine and that the correct emendation should be A. sexlineatus. The latest SSAR list (2017) used A. sexlineata, however the KHA is following Walker et al. (2021) in using A. sexlineatus and anticipates that the next edition of the SSAR list will too.
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Ellis, Mark R. 2002. Fall 2002 KHS field trip to Washington County. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (2):4-5.
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Platt, Dwight R. 2003. Lizards and snakes (Order Squamata) of Harvey County, Kansas. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (6):13-20.
Taggart, Travis W. 2003. Results of the 2003 KHS spring field trip to Wilson County. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (6):2-5.
Miller, Larry L. 2003. Sumner County herp count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (7):10.
Volkmann, Al. 2003. Cowley County herp count 1. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (7):7.
Taggart, Travis W. 2003. Logan County herp count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (7):8.
Suleiman, Gibran. 2003. Fort Riley herp count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (7):9.
Schmidt, Curtis J. 2004. Natural history and status of the exploited Prairie Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) in western Kansas and a herpetofaunal inventory of the Smoky Valley Ranch, Logan County, Kansas. Thesis. Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas. 170 pp.
Delisle, Jennifer M. and William H. Busby. 2004. Biological inventory for vertebrates at Fort Larned National Historic Site of the southern plains network. Natural Heritage Inventory, Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence. 61 pp.
Taggart, Travis W. 2004. Kansas Herpetological Society 2004 spring field trip. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (9):2.
Taggart, Travis W. 2004. Results of the 2004 KHS spring field trip to Logan County. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (10):2-7.
Volkmann, Al. 2004. Cowley County herp count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (11):10.
Miller, Larry L. 2004. Sumner County herp count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (11):11-12.
Taggart, Travis W. 2004. Results of the KHS 2004 fall feld trip . Journal of Kansas Herpetology (12):15-16.
Taggart, Travis W. 2005. Results of the KHS 2005 fall field trip [to Crawford County]. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (16):19-21.
Taggart, Travis W. 2006. Addendum report to biological inventory of the sandsage prairie near Holcomb, Kansas. Sunflower Electric Cooperative, Hays, Kansas. 31 pp.
Taggart, Travis W. 2006. Distribution and status of Kansas herpetofauna in need of information. State Wildlife Grant T7. Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, Pratt. vii + 106 pp.
Wilgers, Dustin J., Eva A. Horne, Brett K. Sandercock, and Allan W. Volkmann. 2006. Effects of rangeland management on community dynamics of the herpetofauna of the tallgrass prairie. 62:378-388.
Taggart, Travis W., Joseph T. Collins, and Curtis J. Schmidt. 2007. Estimates of amphibian, reptile, and turtle mortality if Phostoxin is applied to 10,000 acres of prairie dog burrows in Logan County, Kansas. Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, Pratt. 5 pp.
Taggart, Travis W. 2007. A biological inventory of the Sunflower Electric Site near Holcomb, Kansas. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 23:11-16.
Taggart, Travis W. 2008. KHS 2008 spring field trip. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (25):2-3.
Collins, Joseph T., Suzanne L. Collins, and Travis W. Taggart. 2010. Amphibians, Reptiles, and Turtles of Kansas. Eagle Mountain Publishing., Provo, Utah. 400 pp.
Murrow, Daniel G. 2010. Kansas Herpetological Society spring field trip. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (33):2-3.
Collins, Joseph T., Suzanne L. Collins, and Travis W. Taggart. 2011. Amphibians, Reptiles, and Turtles of the Cimarron National Grassland, Kansas. Second (Revised) Edition. U. S. Forest Service.
Taggart, Travis W. 2011. Kansas Herpetological Society 2011 spring field trip to be held in Chautauqua County. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (37):5-7.
Taggart, Travis W. 2011. Results of the Kansas Herpetological Society 2011 Summer Field Trip to Scott State Park. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (39):2.
Rohweder, Megan R. 2012. Spatial conservation prioritization of Kansas for terrestrial vertebrates. Thesis. Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas. 151 pp.
Powell, Robert, Joseph T Collins, and Errol D Hooper Jr. 2012. Key to the Herpetofauna of the Continental United States and Canada: Second Edition, Revised and Updated. Univ Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 152 pp.
Hamilton, Bryan Tyler, Rachel Hart, and Jack W. Sites Jr. 2012. Feeding ecology of the Milksnake (Lampropeltis triangulum, Colubridae) in the western United States. Journal of Herpetology 46(4):515-522.
Miller, Larry L. 2013. Wellington Lake Herpetological Survey. Collinsorum 2(1/2):12.
Baldwin, Mary Kate. 2013. “Herps in Havensville” Herp Surveys. Collinsorum 2(3/4):10.
Taggart, Travis W. 2013. KHS 2012 Spring Field Trip to Bourbon County State Lake. Collinsorum 2(3/4):3.
Taggart, Travis W. 2013. KHS 2012 Summer Field Trip to Meade County State Park. Collinsorum 2(3/4):3.
Taggart, Travis W. 2013. KHS 2013 Spring Field Trip to Schermerhorn Park, Cherokee County. Collinsorum 2(3/4):4.
Taggart, Travis W. 2013. KHS 2013 Summer Field Trip to Coldwater Lake, Comanche County. Collinsorum 2(3/4):5.
Taggart, Travis W. 2013. KHS 2013 Fall Field Trip to Butler County State Lake. Collinsorum 2(3/4):6.
Mardis, Dexter and Kevin Scott. 2013. 2013 Kansas Herpetofaunal Counts. Collinsorum 2(3/4):7.
Taggart, Travis W. 2014. Results of the 2014 KHS Spring Field Trip to Barber County. Collinsorum 3(2-4):11.
Taggart, Travis W. 2014. Results of the 2014 KHS Fall Field Trip to Woodson County. Collinsorum 3(2-4):12.
Taggart, Travis W. 2014. Results of the 2014 KHS summer field trip to Morton County and adjacent Colorado, New Mexico,
and Oklahoma. Collinsorum 3(2-4):12.
Goldberg, Stephen R. 2014. Reproduction of Six-lined Racerunners, Aspidoscelis sexlineata (Squamata: Teiidae), from New Mexico. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 49(1):8-10.
Brown, Kasandra A. 2015. Occupancy Modeling Of Herpetofauna And Grassland Nesting Birds At Quivira National Wildlife Refuge. Thesis. Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas. 72 pp.
Houck, Mike. 2015. 2015 Fort Riley Herpetofaunal Count final report. Collinsorum 4(1):10-11.
Taggart, Travis W. 2015. Spring Field Trip to the Greenhorn Limestone of Russell County. Collinsorum 4(3):2.
Taggart, Travis W. 2015. Summer Field Trip In The Harvey County Sandhills. Collinsorum 4(3):3.
Taggart, Travis W. 2015. Fall Field Trip Held In Washington County. Collinsorum 4(3):4.
Pittman, Galen L., Henry S. Fitch, and W. Dean Kettle. 2016. Vertebrate animals on the Fitch Natural History Reservation (1948-2002). Kansas Biological Survey Report Number 188, Lawrence. 48 pp.
Powell, Robert, Roger Conant, and Joseph T. Collins. 2016. Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston. 494 pp.
Taggart, Travis W. 2016. Spring 2016 KHS field trip to Clark County was a soggy success. Collinsorum 5(2-3):2-3.
Taggart, Travis W. 2016. Results of the KHS Summer field trip to Caney River, Chautauqua County, Kansas. Collinsorum 5(2-3):4-5.
Taggart, Travis W. 2016. Results of the KHS ‘Fall’ field trip to Barber County. Collinsorum 5(2-3):6-7.
Tucker, Derek B., Guarino R. Colli, L. G. Giugliano, S. Blair. Hedges, C. R. Hendry, Emily M. Lemmon, Alan R. Lemmon, Jack W. Sites, Jr., and R. Alex Pyron. 2016. Methodological
congruence in phylogenomic analyses with morphological
support for teiid lizards (Sauria: Teiidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103:75–84.
Taggart, Travis W. and J. Daren Riedle. 2017. A Pocket Guide to
Kansas Amphibians,
Turtles and Lizards. Great Plains Nature Center, Wichita, Kansas. 69 pp.
Crother, Brian I. (editor). 2017. Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding. Eighth edition. Herpetological Circulars (43):1-102.
Mardis, Dexter R. 2017. Results from three Herpetofaunal tallies at Wichita State University’s Youngmeyer Ranch in Northwestern
Elk County. Collinsorum 6(1):8-10.
Taggart, Travis W. 2017. Results of the 2017 KHS Spring Field Trip to Elk County, Kansas. Collinsorum 6(2-3):6-8.
Schmidt, Curtis J. 2017. Herp Count: Southeast Ellis County. Collinsorum 6(2-3):9.
Houck, Mike. 2018. Herp Count: Fort Riley Military Installation. Collinsorum 7(1):17.
Powell, Robert, Joseph T Collins, and Errol D Hooper Jr. 2019. Key to the Herpetofauna of the Continental United States and Canada. Third Edition. Univ Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 192 pp.
Daniel, Richard E. and Brian S. Edmond. 2020. Atlas of Missouri Amphibians and Reptiles for 2019. Privately printed, Columbia, Missouri. 86 pp.
Scarpetta, Simon G. 2020. Unusual lizard fossil from the Miocene of Nebraska and a minimum age for Cnemidophorine Teiids. Royal Society Open Science 7(8):12.
Riedle, J. Daren. 2020. Revisiting Kansas Herpetological Society field trip and Herp Count data:
Distributional patterns and trend data of Kansas amphibians and reptiles. Collinsorum 9(1):7-16.
Livo, Lauren J., Todd L. Wilcox, and Daniel J. Martin. 2020. Natural history notes: Aspidoscelis sexlineatus viridis: Hatchling phenology. Herpetological Review 51(2):327.
Hullinger, Allison, Zackary Cordes, Daren Riedle, and William Stark. 2020. Habitat assessment of the Broad-headed Skink (Plestiodon laticeps)
and the associated squamate community in eastern Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 123(1-2):137-150.
Taggart, Travis W and Sarah L Taggart. 2021. Herp Count: Neosho County: KHS-2020-01. Collinsorum 9(3):11.
Taggart, Travis W and Sarah L Taggart. 2021. Herp Count: Cherokee County: KHS-2020-02. Collinsorum 9(3):11-12.
Riedle, J. Daren. 2021. Herp Count: Pratt County: KHS-2020-07. Collinsorum 9(3):12.
Schmidt, Curtis J and Avery Schmidt. 2021. Herp Count: KHS-2020-4. Collinsorum 9(3):12.
Mardis, Dexter R. 2021. Herp Count: Sumner County: KHS-2020-08. Collinsorum 9(3):12-13.
Taggart, Travis W and Sarah L Taggart. 2021. Herp Count: Hodgeman County: KHS-2020-09. Collinsorum 9(3):13.
Taggart, Travis W and Sarah L Taggart. 2021. Herp Count: Seward County: KHS-2020-13. Collinsorum 9(3):13.
Taggart, Travis W and Sarah L Taggart. 2021. Herp Count: Stanton County: KHS-2020-10. Collinsorum 9(3):13.
Taggart, Travis W and Sarah L Taggart. 2021. Herp Count: Comanche County: KHS-2020-15. Collinsorum 9(3):13-14.
Schmidt, Curtis J. 2021. Herp Count: Russell County: KHS-2020-16. Collinsorum 9(3):14.
Schmidt, Curtis J. 2021. Herp Count: Russell County: KHS-2020-19. Collinsorum 9(3):14.
Taggart, Travis W. 2021. Herp Count: Russell County: KHS-2020-24. Collinsorum 9(3):14-15.
Taggart, Megan M. and Travis W. Taggart. 2021. Herp Count: Seward County: KHS-2020-27. Collinsorum 9(3):15.
Taggart, Travis W., Dan Fogell, and Christopher Visser. 2021. Herp Count: Russell County: KHS-2020-25. Collinsorum 9(3):15.
Schmidt, Curtis J. 2021. Herp Count: Ellis County: KHS-2020-32. Collinsorum 9(3):16.
Walker, J. Martin, Brian K. Sullivan, and James E. Cordes. 2021. Sanctioned nomenclature for triploid parthenogenetic Colorado Checkered Whiptail and for other taxa of the lizard genus Aspidoscelis (Family Teiidae). Herpetological Review 52(3):550–558.
Russell, Elisabeth. 2023. Habitat associations and fine-scale movements of the Red-spotted Toad (Anaxyrus punctatus) in Kansas and the efficacy of remote telemetry for monitoring small-scale movements. Thesis. Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas. 81 pp.
Wright, Jake. 2024. Herpetofaunal assemblage at a former rock quarry in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Collinsorum 13(1):8-9.