Latitudinal range: -29.8° to 16.6°

Habitats: tropical/subtropical savanna (5), boreal forest/taiga (1)

Found in 7 samples

Ghana: Mole National Park

Lesotho: Sehonghong (GWA) (Holocene)

Mauritania: Chott Boul (wire-mesh BTS traps)

Namibia: Namib-Naukluft National Park

Nigeria: Zaria

Senegal: Drambos Cave

Uganda: Nile Delta

See also Xerus erythropus, Xerus inauris