Rationale
(Changed due to Same category and criteria)
Listed as Least Concern in view of its relatively wide distribution, tolerance of a broad range of habitats and its presumed large population.
Distribution
This species occurs in the eastern plateau slopes of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, from the Nico Malan Pass in Eastern Cape Province, northward through extreme eastern Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal and Swaziland to the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve in Mpumalanga. It ranges from sea level up to 2,000 m asl.
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