Distribution: Western Europe, Turkey, Georgia, C and SE Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan (Dubatolov, Milko, 2004), Pakistan, India (Kashmir), Mongolia, China (Xinjiang, Liaoning), Korea, Japan: Hokkaido, Honshu; N Pakistan, North America. Russia: European part, north to Arkhangel'sk, south to Moscow; N Caucasus, Siberia, Kamchatka, Amur basin, Primorye, Sahkalin, Southern Kuriles: Iturup, Kunashir (Tobias, 1978; Kurzenko, 1995; Carpenter, Kojima, 1997; Dubatolov, 1998). Additional information on the site of Prof. J.Kojima.

Localities from collections of SZMN, ZIN and literature: Russia: Ekaterinburg Province: Irbit; Chelyabinsk Province: Kyshtym (ZIN collection); Kurgan Province; Tyumen Province: "Dorfe Sokolovka im Tobolskischen Gouvernement und Kreis" (Birula, 1930); Khanty-Mansi Province: Oktyabr'skoe, "Dorf Bielogorskoe" [=Belogor'e in 25 km W from Khanty-Mansiisk] (Birula, 1930);  Tomsk Province: Ust'-Churul'ka (Kargasok district), Asino, Ob'-Enisei Canal (ZIN collection); Novosibirsk province: Novyi Sharap and Chingisy (Ordynskoe district), Novosibirsk; Altaiskii Krai: Ust'-Charyshskoe (ZIN collection); Altai Republic: Mukhorikha (Cherginskii Range), between Ongudai and Chibit (ZIN collection), Kurai Range; Artybash (Teletskoe Lake); Khakasia: Abaza; Krasnoyarsk Province: Podkamennaya Tunguska; Irkutsk Province: Listvennichnoe (ZIN collection); Buryat Republic: Tibelti (ZIN collection); Chita Province: Chita; Yakutia: Kochegarovo in 100 km SW from Olekminsk along the Lena river (ZIN collection), river Chona ["Ulus Delinda" (Birula, 1930)] and Markha mouths on the river Vilyui (ZIN collection), Namskoe (ZIN collection), "Dorf Marcha" near Yakutsk (Birula, 1930), "Örtlichkeit Ulachan, etwa 150 km von Jakutsk am Flusse Lena" [=Ulakhan-An, ~100 km SW from Yakutsk] (Birula, 1930), river Tukulan headwater (Birula, 1930); Amur Province: Zeya Nature Reserve, Novospassk (Kurzenko, 1992); Khabarovsk Province: Kiselevka, Nikolaevsk-na-Amure (ZIN collection); Kamchatka: Mt. Klyuchevskaya (ZIN collection); Sakhalin: Tymovskoe (ZIN collection), river Tumi in Okha District, Dolinsk, Lake Tunaicha in 18 km from Pikhtovyi (Kurzenko, 2004); Southern Kuriles: Kunashir, Iturup: between Kuibyshevo and Kasatka, between Kuril'sk and Reidovo (Kuwayama, 1967). Mongolia: Central aimak: Ulan-Baator (Giordani Soika, 1970).

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