This species occurs in the Albertine Rift region, and in the Itombwe Massif in Democratic Republic of the Congo in the south. There is a narrow eastward range extension to just west of the Nile, where they occur in forest patches such as Mabira and Mpanga. There is also a record from Moroto in north-east Uganda (Nash et al. 1999). There is a possibility that this species has been sighted in the Budongo Forest Reserve in Uganda (Ambrose 2002), but this recourd could well have been Galagoides thomasi (that do occur there).