habitat_narrative
Terrestrial
Fossorial, especially in red soils, and found as deep as 20 cm in the Odendaaalsrus area of the northwestern Free State (Broadley et al. 1976). In the Free State it has also been found in damp soil and in sand on the banks of rivers, and one specimen was found when a Suricate Suricata suricatta colony was excavated (De Waal 1978). Specimens can often be found warming under large stones (e.g. Conradie et al. 2011).