Latitudinal range: 5.3° to 45.5°

Habitats: Mediterranean woodland (3), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (2), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (1), lake (1), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (2), temperate wetland (2), river delta (1)

Found in 12 samples

France: Canal de Vergières

India: Kolappancheri (vegetable fields, 2005)

Iran: Sirch, Rayen

Italy: Bosco della Fontana (Site 2, adults)

Malaysia: Chelong

Nigeria: Ago-Store Pond, Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife

Portugal: Guadiana River (2003)

Spain: Cañaveroso stream

Turkey: Kurupelit

Ukraine: Primorskoje

See also Platycnemis acutipennis, Platycnemis dealbata, Platycnemis latipes, Platycnemis nyansana, Platycnemis pennipes, Platycnemis sikassoensis, Platycnemis sp.