Distributed in dry steppes of SE Mongolia and adjacent territories of Russia and China. In Mongolia: Great Lakes Depression, Valley of the Lakes, southern Hangai Mountain Range, along the Orhon and Selenge river basins in north eastern Hangai Mountain Range, Middle Halh Steppe, Northern Govi, and Eastern Mongolia. In N China: Nei Mongol, Liaoning, Hebei, N Shanxi, N Shaanxi, E Gansu, Ningxia. In Russia: southern Transbaikalia and south of Tuva.