An extremely rare species that, however, appears to be widely distributed in Europe. Kameneva (2008) lists specimens from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, and Spain. Further records from Spain are given by Carles-Tolra (1994) and Carles-Tolra and Kameneva (2008). Merz (1996) reports the species for Switzerland for the first time, but states that all available specimens were collected in the 19th centruy, thus suggesting that the species is now extinct in Switzerland. It is also recorded from Israel (Freidberg and Morgulis 2011), Slovakia (Semelbauer and Vidlicka 2015; Straka and Majzlan 2016), Czech Republic (Martinek 2001), Portugal (Almeida 2013), and the Netherlands and Belgium (Van Aartsen 2001).