No information on population sizes or trends is available, but this species occurs only in suitable indigenous forest patches of the KwaZulu-Cape Coastal Fores Mosaic, and its populations are therefore severely fragmented. The WWF classifies the KwaZulu-Cape Coastal Forest Mosaic as Critical/Endangered. Although 9% of this habitat type lies within protected areas, 43% of the original habitat has already been transformed, and what remains is found mostly in very small, isolated fragments which are under severe pressure by human utilization (WWF 2013). There are only two extensive remaining reserves of this habitat type, and the Indian coast katydid has not been found in either one of these.
The principal threat to this species is habitat destruction by cultivation, development or alien species invasion. Its habitat is under severe pressure of urban development and tourism, cultivation for sugarcane and plantation forestry, and invasion by lantana, bugweed and other non-native weed species.
No specific conservation measures are in place for this species but it is known to occur in at least one protected area, Silaka Nature Reserve.