Distribtion & Habitat

Found throughout much of the central Kalahari of Botswana and adjacent Northern Cape Province, South Africa, and Namibia, extending to the western parts of the Zambezi Region, western Zimbabwe and southern parts of Zambia (Broadley and Rasmussen 1995, Branch 1998, Broadley and Van Daele 2003, Bates et al. 2014, Pietersen et al. 2017). Recently collected in southeastern Angola (W. Conradie pers. comm.). The single isolated  record in Limpopo Province, South Africa, from ‘near Mopane’, is based on an ‘unconfirmed report illustrated by photos’; the area has suitable relict patches of Kalahari sand, but no specimens were found during surveys in the 1970s/1980s (Jacobsen 1989: 257). The elevational range is 400-1,100 m elevation.