It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, possibly Mozambique, and possibly Sudan.

[2] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, and plantations.

[2] It was recently determined that H. kivuensis and H. multifasciatus are only subspecifically distinct from each other, and the latter was synonymized with the former.

[3] However, if several first established in the same work are found to refer to the same species, the ICZN Code leaves the choice which name to choose to the first scientist to revise them accordingly.

Furthermore, it makes the outcome of such a first revision binding.