Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Egypt, Israel (B), Jordan (B) (NB), Lebanon (B), Oman (B), Saudi Arabia (B), Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic (B), Uganda, Yemen (B).
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Proposed subspecies butleri (described from Kajo Kaji, in southern Sudan) considered inseparable from decorsei.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
osea (Bonaparte, 1856) - Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, north-eastern Egypt, southern Syria, Jordan, western Saudi Arabia, Yemen and southern Oman.
decorsei Oustalet, 1905 - Widely scattered localities at L Chad and in eastern Cameroon, Central African Republic, western and southern Sudan, north-eastern DRCongo and north-western Uganda.