Distribution; world
Central and southern Europe eastwards to the Levant and central Asia. This species was conditionally removed from the list of bees of the Czech Republic and Slovakia by Pridal (2003) in the absence of any reliable records or specimens:
BG, CH, ES, FR, GR, HR, IT, IT-SI, SL, IL, JO, KZ
Conservation status; world
Conservation status: CH - RDB0 (RE)