Distribution: Chad, Cameroon, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Sudan.

This species has been reported also from Tanzania (Lampe, 1918: 191; Werner, 1916: 80; Loveridge, 1925: 305; Werner, 1936: 175), however I suspect all such reports to concern misidentified H. trilineatus. Also Uganda records (Birula, 1908: 141) are most likely dubious.