“…Africa: Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Djibouti, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Mauritania, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia and Western Sahara; Asia: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey and the Yemen (our data; Hoogstraal, 1956;Hoogstraal & Kaiser, 1958a, b, 1959, 1960Morel, 1958;Feldman-Muhsam, 1960;Abbassian-Lintzen, 1961;Morel & Graber, 1961;Kaiser & Hoogstraal, 1963, 1964Morel & Mouchet, 1965;Köhler et al, 1967;Morel & Rodhain, 1972;Hoffmann & Lindau, 1971;Bailly-Choumara et al, 1974;Pegram, 1976;Rodhain, 1976;Mohammed, 1977;Hoogstraal et al, 1981;Pegram et al, 1981Pegram et al, , 1982Papadopoulos et al, 1991). Except for the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East, this species seems to be fairly rare in Asia.…”