Distribution; world
In the Palaearctic region the species is distributed from Fennoscandia, south across Europe to Morocco, Corsica and Cyprus, and east to China and the Far East (Yasumatsu, 1941).:
AL, AD, AT, BA, BE, BG, BY, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, ES-BI, FI, FL, FR, FR-CO, GB, GB-CI, GR, GR-AN, GR-DD, GR-KK, GR-KR, HR, HU, IE, IT, IT-SA, IT-SI, LT, LU, LV, MD, ME, MK, NL, *NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, RU, RU-EU, *SE, SK, SL, TR, UA, YU, MA, DZ, TN, LY, EG, IL, CN
Abundance; world
Andrena ovatula populations in most European countries might be decreasing, although this is only estimated from the amount of specimens in different collections over the past 10 years. This species is suspected to have declined by around 30% (V. Radchenko pers. comm. 2014), and this also follows from the estimates of the amount of collected specimens in the different European collections over the past 10 years. A particularly strong decline in the number is observed in the northern regions of Europe
Conservation status; world
Conservation status: FI - RDB0 (RE), IE - RDB5 (DD), NL - RDB3 (VU), EU - RDB-NT (Nieto et al, 2014)