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

Rationale

The threat status of the East Coast Flat-necked Shieldback (Arytropteris granulithorax) is Least Concern because it has a moderately widespread distribution, a large extent of occurrence and its geographic range is not expected to be severely fragmented or to experience decline or extreme fluctuations presently or in the foreseeable future.  

Distribution

The East Coast Flat-necked Shieldback is known to occur in Lesotho, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces, South Africa.

Population trend

Trend

No information on population sizes or trends is available.

Threats

The species resides within the threatened grassland and Indian Ocean Coastal Belt biomes which are under stress by cultivation, over-grazing and invasion by alien plants. However, since this species is relatively widespread and not restricted to one biome, the threats to its survival cannot be assessed at present.

Uses and trade

This species is not utilized.

Conservation

No specific conservation measures are in place for this species and it is not known to occur within any protected areas.

References 

[@electronic{58124,
 address = {www.iucnredlist.org},
 author = {IUCN},
 title = {The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3},
 year = {2014}
}
,@article{20659659,
 author = {Rentz, D.C.F.},
 journal = {Invertebrate Taxonomy},
 pages = {223--335},
 title = {The shield-backed katydids of southern Africa: their taxonomy, ecology and relationships to the faunas of Australia and South America (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae)},
 volume = {2.0},
 year = {1988}
}
,]
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