Sample localities of Rhabdomys sp. in the Eastern Cape and southern KwaZulu-Natal provinces. These localities encompass the mistbelt forest (A-H), coastal group (letters P and O), and Scarp group (I-N). Letters represent the study locations as shown in Table 1 while the dashed lines indicate the boundaries of each forest type. The relative position of the study area within South Africa is indicated by the rectangle in the insert.