Distribution. From the eastern region of the Arabian Peninsula, through southern Iran and Iraq to Pakistan and India as far north as the Himalayan uplift. The species extends eastward as far as Vietnam, north to Yunnan Province, China, and south into Indonesia (Engel, 1999).

Jordan (Haddad et al. 2009)
Invasive in Africa: first discovered in Sudan (Lord & Nagi, 1987), now also in northern Ethiopia (Pauly & Hora 2013).

Morphometry: Hepburn et al. 2005.