It has been photographed in the Pamiro-Alai near Fergana. As of 1984 it had been collected in the Alay Mountains (Archa-bakhi); in the Zaalaisk Mountains at the Kyzylart Pass in Kyrgyzstan on the border between Gorno-Badakshan province in Tajikistan and Osh Province, Kyrgyzstan; in the Pamir Mountain proper at a place called Kara-kuzun and at Beyik Pass, at 4200m elevation, in far eastern Gorno-Badakshan, leading to the Taghdumbash Pamir region of Xinjiang; and in the Hindu Kush.