Abundance: 0.14 to 43.65% (median 5.50%)

Latitudinal range: -28.3° to 0.3°

Habitats: (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (1), tropical/subtropical savanna (7)

Found in 9 samples

Botswana: Mokolodi Nature Reserve

Kenya: Mpala Research Centre

South Africa: Telperion/Ezemvelo Nature Reserve, Bethlehem, Plovers Lake (Late Pleistocene)

Uganda: Lunyo Forest, Lake Mburo National Park (savannah, grazed), Lake Mburo National Park (savannah, ungrazed)

Zambia: Lusaka (south area, 2011)

See also Aethomys chrysophilus, Aethomys hindei, Aethomys ineptus, Aethomys kaiseri, Aethomys namaquensis, Aethomys sp.