Rationale
(Changed due to Same category and criteria)
Listed as Least Concern in view of its very wide distribution, its tolerance of a broad range of habitats and its presumed large population.
Distribution
This species is known from South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and southwestern Angola, and from the interior of Tanzania and Kenya. For the most part distributional records have not been separated between this species and Tomopterna cryptotis. The distribution map is therefore incomplete and provisional, based on confirmed records only in South Africa, Tanzania and Kenya but including Botswana, Namibia, Angola and Lesotho in the distribution. There are no definite records from Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland, although it almost certainly occurs in these countries. It occurs from sea level to over 1,800 m asl.
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