Within the United Arab Emirates, this species is widespread throughout all of the mainland desert regions excluding the Hajar Mountains (Gardner 2013, Burriel-Carranza et al. in press). It occurs from sea level to 300 m asl. Globally, this is a widespread species of arid areas of North Africa, West and Central Asia (Corkill 1928, Martens and Kock 1992, Stanner 2004, Trape et al. 2012). In northern Africa, this species ranges from Western Sahara, Mauritania, northern Mali, and Niger in the west, throughout the Saharan desert region, to Egypt and Sudan in the east. From Egypt, the species ranges northwards through the southern and eastern Levant and into Turkey (southeastern Anatolia), Iraq and Iran. The species is present throughout the Arabian Peninsula.