[3] The specific name, dumerilii, is in honor of French herpetologist André Marie Constant Duméril.

It can be distinguished from A. longipes by the presence of contrasting dark brown or black spots across the dorsal surface.

[7] The typical habitat of Duméril's fringe-fingered lizard is mainly found in the deserts of Algeria,[3] Libya,[3] Morocco,[3][9] Mauritania,[3] Senegal,[3] Tunisia[3][10] and the Western Sahara.

Duméril's fringe-fingered lizard avoids deserts free of vegetation and is mainly found at the edges of dunes overgrown by some bushes and halfa grass (Stipa tenacissima), or lives in soil covered with sparse vegetation, where it constructs its burrows.

The locusts develop a warning coloration at higher population density, which is noticeably intensified to indicate their potential toxicity.