The Lance Aplexa "is distributed in the Northwest Territories, Canada, from the vicinity of Great Slave Lake southeast (south of Hudson Bay) to Anticosti Island, Quebec, and Nova Scotia; south through British Columbia, eastern Washington and eastern Oregon to southernmost Utah and Colorado; east across the Great Plains from northeastern Colorado through northern Nebraska to central Illinois, through Indiana and Ohio to Pennsylvania and eastern Massachusetts; also in Illinois and Ohio there are early records from south of the modern known range (Taylor, 2003)." (
British Columbia Conservation Data Centre 2012). It is found in a variety of wetland habitats from temporary pools and ponds to streams, ponds and lake edges, and even under moist leaves (British Columbia Conservation Data Centre 2012).
