Occurs in South Africa and several tropical regions of East Africa and Southeast Asia. Holotype male, paratype female, paratype male at MNHN, Paris, other paratypes with Barra. Type locality: Sodwana Bay National Park, KwaZulu-Natal, 300 km N of Durban, foot of the dune at top of beach, humid sand at 20 cm depth, under low pioneer vegetation, J.-P. Rieb leg.