The species has been collected from Greece (Rhodes), Israel (northern part) and Turkey (south).
Taxonomic history
Status as species: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a PDF: 52; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 264; Kugler, 1988: 256; Bolton, 1995b: 60; Aktaç et al., 2004 PDF: 362; Petrov, 2006 PDF: 82 (in key); Legakis, 2011 PDF: 3; Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 462; Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 3; Sharaf et al., 2012b 10.3897/zookeys.228.3559 PDF: 47 (in key); Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 7; Lebas et al., 2016: 124; Jaitrong & Ruangsittichai, 2018 10.3897/zookeys.775.26893 PDF: 113 (in key); Borowiec & Salata, 2018a 10.5281/zenodo.1481802 PDF: 3; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF: 42.