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Least Concern (LC)
Assessors: Corinna Bazelet Piotr Naskrecki
Reviewers: Mark Bushell Axel Hochkirch

Rationale

Wahlberg's Clonia has a relatively large extent of occurrence and, due to its occurrence within sparsely inhabited regions which are unsuitable for cultivation and development, its geographic range is not expected to be severely fragmented or to experience decline or extreme fluctuations presently or in the foreseeable future. It is listed as Least Concern.  

Distribution

Wahlberg's Clonia (Clonia wahlbergi) is fairly widespread throughout southern Africa, and is known to occur in Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa. Wahlberg's Clonia consists of two subspecies, C. wahlbergi wahlbergi in eastern South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and C. wahlbergi maculosa which occurs farther North and West, to Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa's Western Cape Province.
Wahlberg's Clonia has been recorded from all of South Africa's provinces except for the Eastern Cape Province, but it is likely to occur there as well.

Population trend

Trend

No information on population sizes or trends is available.

Threats

The greatest threat to this species is habitat destruction, but due to its widespread distribution in sparsely inhabited regions, many of which are unsuitable for cultivation and development, Wahlberg's Clonia is not directly threatened.

Uses and trade

This species is not utilized.

Conservation

No specific conservation measures are in place for this species but it is known to occur in at least three protected areas, Gorongosa, Kruger and Kgalagadi National Parks, and Hluhluwe Game Reserve.

References 

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 year = {2004}
}
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 author = {IUCN},
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 author = {Bailey  and Rentz },
 booktitle = {The Predatory Saginae},
 editor = {Kaltenbach, A.P.},
 pages = {281--302},
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 title = {Tettigoniidae: Biology, Systematics and Evolution},
 year = {1990}
}
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