habitat_narrative
Terrestrial
Often found in moist situations: marshy seepage zones with scattered stones and rotting logs in montane grassland (Katberg); valley bottoms with restioid mountain fynbos, often beside streams (Kammanassieberg and Cedarberg); open clearings in moist, cool, coastal forest (Tsitsikama Coastal National Park) (Branch 1990). Also observed in dense coastal fynbos at Llandudno (Cape Town) and in dense mountain fynbos near the top of Seweweekspoort Mountain near Ladismith (Bates et al. 2014). According to FitzSimons (1943), also found on grassy flats and the lower slopes of mountains, where it lives in piles of dead wood and leaves or under logs. Common along roadsides and paths in coastal montane forests, where it moves about in open sunlit patches (FitzSimons 1943). In the Cape provinces it is found at elevations of about 20 m (Llundudno) to 1,400 m (Branch 1990b). In KwaZulu-Natal, occurs at elevations of 1,520-1,800 m (Bourquin 2004).