Distribution: SW Morocco (relictary), Mauritania, Western Sahara, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, N Ivory Coast, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Congo (Brazzaville), Angola, Zambia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Republic of South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Saudi Arabia, Yemen. loveridgei: NW Republic of South Africa, SW Namibia; Type locality: "Farm Finkenstein bei Windhoek, Südwestafrika". Type locality: “Indiis” (fide Linneaus 1758; in error) = Cape Colony, South Africa.