Distribution; world
A common southern Palaearctic species, its range extending across Europe from central France east across Asia Minor to Pakistan (D.B. Baker. pers. comm.) and southwards into the Afrotropical region (according to Alfken (1912) it reaches the Cape), including Oman:
AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, DE, ES, ES-BI, FR, FR-CO, GB, GB-CI, HR, HU, IT, IT-SA, IT-SI, LT, PL, PT, RO, RS, RU, SL, UA, PK, OM
Conservation status; world
Conservation status: CH - RDB3 (VU), 1 - RDB3 (VU), DE2 - RDB3 (VU), GB - RDB1+ (RE), EU - RDB-LC (Nieto et al, 2014)