The species is native to northern sub-Saharan Africa.

[2] L. longicaudata is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Yemen.

[2] Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Latastia.

The subspecific names, lanzai and revoili, are in honor of Italian herpetologist Benedetto Lanza[3] and French naturalist Georges Révoil,[4] respectively.

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