Distribution; world
South eastern Europe and Asia Minor eastwards to the Levant. The record of Hoplitis anipuncta (Alfken, 1935) from Crete (Zanden, 1989), which is based on collected females, is most probably erroneous. These females certainly belong to Hoplitis fasciculata (Alfken, 1934).:
CY, TR, IL, JO, SY