Spathioplites phreneticus A political distribution map. Only known from three localities (depicted by red circles) one each in Chad, Senegal and South Africa B distribution localities (depicted by white circles) mapped onto African precipitation patterns. Data source: ERA-Interim corrected with GPCP v2.1; period: 1979–2010. After Masih et al. 2014 and Trambauer et al. 2014 C habitat South African sampling site locality TSW15-DED3 in Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve, aerial view from North in February 2016 after summer rains (locality arrowed) D habitat South African locality TSW15-DED3 in Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve, aerial view from East in February 2016 after summer rains (locality arrowed) E sampling localities in Tswalu Game Reserve plotted onto vegetation map after Mucina and Rutherford (2006); red circle depicts S. phreneticus locality TSW15-DED3, white circles depict other sampling localities.