Colorado Checkered Whiptail vs. Plateau Striped Whiptail
Their records overlap in southeastern Colorado, the whiptail's native range (checked); in Washington the whiptail is an introduced colony near Moses Lake. A: Six pale stripes; pale spots and bars in the dark fields between them: checkered in the Colorado Checkered Whiptail; six or seven clean pale stripes, no spots between them in the Plateau Striped Whiptail. B: Brownish, not blue in the Colorado Checkered Whiptail; pale blue, brightest in the young in the Plateau Striped Whiptail. Both are all-female whiptails.
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