This species is only known from the southern border of Yunnan, adjacent to Vietnam, but it is mountainous. It can handle both a fair amount of heat and cold [overnight below freezing, if protected by leaf litter], provided it has soil moisture but dry air. When warm and humid [stagnant], they die rather quickly. I have had some specimens remain in the water while others hid in the duff below frost, but once daytime temperatures did not rise above freezing, they came inside. I haven't yet checked for climate data for this species, but once I update my maps to correct some records of T.shanjing/T.verrucosus to T.yangi, I'll be better able to identify the local climate. That will likely be slightly on the warm side, since climate stations tend to be near human habitation, not up in the shady damp mountain forests.