Distribution; world
A predominantly eastern Mediterranean species that spreads from the southeast of western Europe (Sicily) to central Europe, east to the Donetsk region of Ukraine, the Rostov region of European Russia and towards Central Asia and Afghanistan:
AT, BG, CY, CZ, GR, GR-DD, GR-KK, HU, *IT-SI, MD, MK, *PL, RO, RU-EU, SK, TR, UA, IL, LB, SY
Abundance; world
It is suspected that there has been at least a 30% continuing decline in the species' AOO, EOO and habitat quality across Europe. Only Turkey has a population that could be considered stable.
Conservation status; world
Conservation status: CZ - RDB0 (RE),EU - RDB-VU (Nieto et al, 2014)