This species is widespread across the northern parts of the UAE and on offshore islands (Jongbloed et al. 2003, MEW 2010). Although apparently absent from the Hajar Mountains and the east coast (Jongbloed et al. 2003), Feulner (2011) reports it from ""wadis, lower slopes, foothills and alluvial plains of the mountains"". Feulner (2016) found the species in Wadi Wurayah, but in only two peri-anthropic localities, and reports the species from a peri-urban area at Khor Fakkan; presence east of the Hajar Mountains is probably the result of introduction. The species is recorded from Wadi Al Ain (Mousa and Fawzi 2009) and from Jebel Hafeet (Fawzi and Ksiksi 2012). The global distribution of the species extends from Macaronesia, across Africa (Sahara to Egypt and south to Tanzania), and east through the Arabian Peninsula to Myanmar (Board of Trustees, RBG Kew 2018). Norton et al. (2009) give the regional distribution as Qatar, Bahrain, eastern Saudi Arabia and the UAE.