This species is endemic to Austria. It is only known from the type locality, Tiefsteinschlucht at Tiefsteinschlucht at Schleedorf.
The population trend of this species is not known and it is thought to be possibly extinct. Three surveys by Reischutz and Reischutz in 1968, 1973 and 2004 have failed to find this species and other surveys by Seidl, Boeters, Falkner over the last 30 years have also not located specimens, hence it is considered to be extinct.