This species is generally recorded from Central Africa, East Africa and northern parts of Southern Africa, although the geographic range of this species remains poorly defined. The core area of their range appears to be centred in East Africa, from extreme southern Sudan, Uganda and western Kenya southwards through Tanzania, most of Zambia and Malawi to Zimbabwe. However, there are also isolated records from Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ethiopia, suggesting that the distribution range be much wider and more continuous than currently thought. They have not yet been recorded from Angola, Botswana, or Mozambique, but it is likely they occur at least in the latter country as specimens have been taken from right on the border of neighbouring Malawi and Zimbabwe.
Recorded from the Nyika Plateau at 2,000 m asl (Ansell and Dowsett 1988), but apparently also from the Ruwenzori range at 2,600 m asl.