Distribution: SE Europe, North Africa and Middle East.
Cyrenaica: "Fuehat (Solari 1925, sub festae),
Porto Bardia, Cirene (Gridelli
1930 sub festae), Tobruk (Zavattari 1934 sub
festae), Bengasi (Koch
1939 sub festai) – Sitona fairmairei Allard,
1869 [= S. festae F. Solari,
1925, syn n.].