Breeding does not necessarliy take place every year throughout the range; for example, in drought years in the pre-Sahara, breeding may not occur. In Morocco, the chief breeding season commences around January, with a secondary peak about April. Sometimes breeding may occur as late as early summer, in the Atlas and Rif Mountain parts of the range (Salvador, 1996).

Ovideposition takes place at night, with 5000 to 10,000 eggs being laid down in four strings. Individual ova are 1.4 to 1.7 millimetres in diameter (Salvador, 1996).