This disappearance has been caused primarily by logging and replacement of rainforest with commercial Australian eucalyptus and Chinese pine forests, and to a lesser extent by slash-and-burn cultivation for rice agriculture, which is exacerbated by the extremely high population growth rate and poverty in rural Madagascar.
This species only inhabits the region around Andasibe and Ranomafana in eastern Madagascar.
There is presently only one species in this genus: Gonoretodes timea Watson, 1965 from eastern Madagascar (Moramanga).
This is a monotypic genus that only contains the species Melittosesia flavitarsa Bartsch, 2009 that was found in eastern Madagascar near Moramanga and Andasibe in mountainous primary forests.
The (Roman Catholic) Diocese of Moramanga (Dioecesis Moramanganus) is located in the east of Madagascar.
The company has coal mines in Alberta and Saskatchewan and nickel laterite mines in Moa, Cuba and near Moramanga, Madagascar.
It is only known from the area around Andasibe on the east coast of Madagascar, about 100 km east of Antananarivo.