In the UAE, this species is common in the Ru'us al-Jibal to c. 1,900 m asl (Feulner 2011, Rothfels et al. 2012). There are scattered records to the south from the Hajar Mountains, including a record from the upper part of Wadi Siji in the Wadi Wurayah National Park buffer zone (WWNP; Feulner 2016). D. Aplin (pers. comm. 2020) found a new southern record for the species in the UAE, from Ra's al Khaimah, west of Al Hayl. Rothfels et al. (2012) record numerous records of the species from adjacent parts of the Musandam Peninsula. Globally, this is a mostly Mediterranean species, extending from Cape Verde across North Africa and southern Europe to Greece, through the Arabian Peninsula, along the northern Black Sea coast and into Kazakhstan and northern India.