Common names: Rusty-spotted Genet, Blotched Genet, Central African Large-spotted Genet, Large-spotted Genet (English), Grootkolmuskeljaatkat (Afrikaans), Insimba (Ndebele, Swati, Zulu), Thsipa-thoko (Sepedi), Thsipa, T’sipa, Tsipa e Matheba a Maholo (Sesotho), Thokolo (Tswana), Msimba-mangovo, Nsimba (Tsonga), Tshipathokolo, Tsimba (Venda), Inyhwagi (Xhosa). Distribution: This species is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from east of the Volta River (Ghana) to east of Eritrea and Somalia (its presence in Djibouti is uncertain) and southwards to central Namibia and KwaZulu-Natal Province in South Africa (Angelici and Gaubert 2013). It occurs to high elevations, up to 3,400 m in the Simien Mountains of Ethiopia (Yalden et al. 1996). As recently argued by Hoffmann et al. (2015), it is unlikely that this species is present on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.