Distribution: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cape Verde Islands, Congo, Cote d’Ivoir, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

Records from Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia (see Fet & Lowe, 2000: 139) and Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire; Geeraerts, 1953: 1066) must be considered dubious. Also records from Tanzania may in some instances be erroneous and probably concern H. trilineatus (Peters, 1862).