Distribution; world
Widespread in the western Palaearctic, from Northern Europe (central Fennoscandia - where it is scarce) (Elfving, 1968) south to North Africa and the Azores, and east to the Urals and the Caucasus (Ebmer, 1988):
AT, BE, BG, CH, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, ES-IC, FI, FL, FR, FR-CO, GB, GI, GR, GR-AN, HR, HU, IT, IT-SI, LT, LU, LV, NL, NO, PT, PT-AZ, PL, RO, RU, RU-EU, SE, SL, MA, TR, IL, IR, SY
Abundance; world
Map in Atlas Hymenoptera lacking UK data
Conservation status; world
Conservation status: FI - RDB1 (CR), EU - RDB-LC (Nieto et al, 2014)