Distribution; world
The species is widespread in Europe and the Middle East, its range extending from Fennoscandia (Erlandsson, 1955; Elfving, 1968), south to Iberia and north Africa, and eastwards across Asia to the far east of Russia (Banaszak & Romasenko, 1998).:
AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FL, FR, FR-CO, GB, GB-CI, HR, HU, IE, IT, IT-SA, IT-SI, LT, LU, LV, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, RU, RU-EU, SE, SL, TM
Conservation status; world
Conservation status: CH - RDB3 (VU), FI - RDB4 (NT), IE - RDB5 (DD), NL - RDB2 (EN), NO - RDB4 (NT), EU - RDB-LC (Nieto et al, 2014)