This species has been recorded from both dry and moist savanna habitats. In Nigeria, it is widespread in Sudan and Guinea savanna zones extending southwards to the rainforest-savanna boundary (Happold 1987).

This species has been recorded in much of West Africa (including northern parts of Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, much of Senegal, Gambia, and Burkina Faso, and southern parts of Mali and Niger). There are isolated records from southwestern Mauritania, as well as western parts of the Central African Republic. The eastern parts of the distribution include records from Sudan, and the northern parts of Uganda and Kenya. Further south this species is found in Mozambique, western Angola and Namibia. There is uncertainty about a range which encompasses south Zambia, north Botswana, possibly South Africa, and south-east Angola.

In view of the species wide range it is presumably present in many protected areas. No direct conservation measures are currently needed for this species as a whole.