Continent: Africa Near-East
Distribution: Republic of South Africa, Swaziland, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire; except in the Center), Congo (Brazzaville), Gabon, Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Niger, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia,  Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Mali, Sudan [abukhalil.mohamed, pers. comm.],  Algeria, Morocco, SW Saudi Arabia, Oman  somalica: Somalia, N Kenya  
Type locality: Cape of Good Hope = South Africa.