Distribution; world
The nominate form is widespread across South and central Europe from Spain to Asia Minor, the Caucasus and central Asia. Subspecies soror is restricted to north Africa:
AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CZ, DE, ES, FL, FR, FR-CO, GR, GR-AN, GR-DD, HR, HU, IT, IT-SA, IT-SI, LU, MK, MT, PT, RO, RS, RU, SK, SL, TR, UA, MA, DZ, TN, AM, CN, GE, IL, IR, JO, SY, TM
Conservation status; world
Conservation status: CH - RDB3 (VU), CZ - RDB2 (EN), DE1 - RDB3 (VU), DE2 - RDB3 (VU), EU - RDB-LC (Nieto et al, 2014)