This species is endemic to Tasmania, Australia. It can be found in fractured locations in the Granville Harbour-Rosebery district in western Tasmania, the region of the DazzlerRange, and north of Deloraine in northern Tasmania (Horwitz 1990). It has also been recorded in the vicinity of Burnie in north-west Tasmania (N. Doran pers. comm. 2009). This species has an estimated extent of occurrence of 1,586 km², but has a disjunct distribution (P. Horwitz pers. comm. 2009).