Distribution; world
Widely distributed in central and southern Europe, north-western Africa, Anatolia the Levant and the Caucasus (Koster, 1986). In the Alps it reaches an altitude of 1500m.
AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, ES, ES-BI, FR, FR-CO, GB, GR, GR-AN, GR-DD, GR-KR, HU, IT, IT-SA, IT-SI, LU, NL, PL, PT, RO, RU, RU-EU, SL, SK, MA, DZ, TN, IL, IQ, IR, TR, TM
Abundance; world
As in Britain, there has been an apparent increase in the populations of this species in the Netherlands (south Limburg) in recent years, where it was formerly very rare; e.g. on railway embankments in Maastricht it occurred in abundance in 1986 (1520-2000 specimens) (Koster, 1986b).
Conservation status; world
Conservation satus: CH - RDB3 (VU), CZ - RDB3 (VU), GB - RDB3 (R), SL - RDB1-2 (EN)