Indo-West Pacific
region: East Africa to Japan and Polynesia. Two
subspecies can be recognized: P. l. longipes (Fig.
277a) is the western form occurring from East Africa
to Thailand, Taiwan, the Philippines and Indonesia
and the eastern subspecies P.I. femoristriga (Fig.
277b) inhabiting Japan, the Moluccas, New Guinea,
eastern Australia, New Caledonia and Polynesia (Fig.
278). Intermediate forms have been observed, especially
in the area of overlap between the two ranges