Distribution; world
Central and southern Europe and north Africa, eastwards to the Levant and Central Asia and the Far East. Portugese records are in error (Baldock et al, 2018):
AT, BA, BG, *CH, *CY, CZ, DE, FR, FR-CO, GR, GR-AN, GR-DD, GR-KR, HR, HU, IT, IT-SI, ME, MK, PL, RO, RS, RU, RU-EU, SK, SL, TR, UA, MA, DZ, TN, LY, GE, CN, IR, JP, KP, KR, KZ, MN, TM, UZ
Abundance; world
The current status of the European populations of this widely distributed but rare species remain unknown for most regions. In many countries of its range, Andrena taraxaci has not been collected over the last 10 years.
Conservation status; world
Conservation status: DE1 - RDBG (SU), DE2 - RDBR (Rare), EU - RDB-DD (Nieto et al, 2014)