Distribution; world
The species is one of the commonest of south European bees. It is very widely distributed in the Europe and elsewhere in the western Palaearctic, ranging from Denmark (Jørgensen, 1921) in the north, south to Iberia, Corsica, Malta, Cyprus and North Africa (Morocco to Egypt), and east to Turkey, Israel, Daghestan, Iran, Afghanistan, Kashmir and northern India (Bihar).
AL, AT, BA, BE, BG, BY, CH, CZ, CY, DE, DK, ES, ES-BI, FL, FR, FR-CO, GB, GB-CI, GR, GR-AN, GR-DD, GR-KR, HR, HU, IT, IT-SA, IT-SI, LT, LU, LV, MD, ME, MK, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, RS, RU, RU-EU, SE, SK, SL, TR, UA, MA, DZ, TN, LY, EG, IL, AF, IN
Abundance; world
Populations of A. flavipes are large and the species has expanded its range during around the past decade (Edwards 2002). This is the most frequent Andrena species in the south of Europe, representing 60 % of the records (Pesenko 1974).
Conservation status; world
Conservation status: EU - RDB-LC (Nieto et al, 2014)