Distribution; world
Circumpolar, across norther Europe, Asia and North America. The species lives beyond the tree-line and in the alpine zone of the Scandinavian mountains, at latitudes nowhere lower than 60° N. Its distribution is more strictly Arctic than for B. polaris and in N. America, it is absent from the shores of the Hudson Bay, as from Quebec and Labrador, but reaches the far north of Ellesmere Isl. and Greenland, well beyond the 80th parallel.
In the West-Palaearctic region, the range of B. hyperboreus is the same as that of B. polaris, including Novaia Zemlia, Wrangel and some other islands of northern Russia and Siberia..
FI, NO, RU, SE, RU, US, CA, GL
Abundance; world
A scarce species
Conservation status; world
Conservation status: FI1 - RDB4 (NT), FI2- RDB4 (NT), EU - RDB-VU (Nieto et al, 2014)