Distribution; world
The species occurs throughout much of the western Palaearctic (including Europe), ranging from southern Fennoscandia (Elfving, 1968), southwards to north Africa (Warncke, 1978)), and east to Iran (Warncke, 1978, 1979):
AT, BE, BG, CH, CZ, DE, EE, ES, ES-BI, FI, FR, FR-CO, GB, GR, HU, IE, IT, IT-SA, LT, LU, LV, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RU, RU-EU, SE, SL, SK, UA, IR
Conservation status; world
Conservation Status: CH - RDB2 (EN), CZ - RDB1 (CR), DE1 - RDB4 (NT), DE2 - RDBV (NT), SL - RDB1-2 (EN)