The weeping lizard is oviparous which means that female lizards lay eggs that hatch outside of her after a period of incubation without her presence. Females prefer to lay their eggs underneath rocks, where the eggs gain protection from predators. Females can lay their eggs as early as October, but typically, females are gravid in October and lay eggs in November shortly after the beginning of the warmer season in the Southern hemisphere. Clutches of eggs are usually between 7 and 11 eggs, laid together.Pincheira-Donoso, D., Núñez, H. 2005. Les especies Chilenas del género Liolaemus Wiegmann, 1834 (Iguania: Tropiduridae: Liolaeminae): taxonomía, sistemática y evolución. Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Chile The maximum clutch size ever recorded has been 18 eggs.Ibargüengoytía. 2008. Estrategias reproductivas en reptiles. Significant variation in egg clutch size has been documented before. Generally, larger females tend to lay more eggs than smaller females. This trend applies to both mass and volume, since more massive lizards are almost always more voluminous. As a result, previous variation in egg-laying clutch size may actually be a result of unconsidered variation in the sizes of the females who laid the clutches.
