Within P. galeata, widely distributed in and endemic to South Africa, two deeply divergent mitochondrial clades were identified. One is restricted to the westernmost part of the country, whilst the other is distributed over most of the remaining regions. This widely distributed clade consists of three subclades, one of which is largely restricted to KwaZulu-Natal. In the Kruger Park region, another species (P. subrufa s. str.) has been recorded, which also occurs in Namibia, southern Angola, Botswana, the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, and the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania