Canis adustus Sundevall, 1847 . Ofv. K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. Stockholm, 1846, 3:121 [1847].

TYPE LOCALITY: "Caffraria Interiore"; listed as "Magaliesberg" [South Africa] by Sclater (1900) .

DISTRIBUTION: Open woodland and semi-arid grassland from Senegal to Ethiopia, south to N Namibia, N Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and N South Africa. The W African population is largely "unknown" (Ginsberg and Macdonald, 1990).

SYNONYMS: bweha Heller, 1914; centralis Schwarz, 1915; holubi Lorenz, 1895; kaffensis Neumann, 1902; lateralis Sclater, 1870; notatus Heller, 1914; studeri Hilzheimer, 1906; wunderlichi Noack, 1897.