Native to:
Angola,
Belize,
Benin,
Bolivia,
Brazil North,
Brazil Northeast,
Brazil South,
Brazil Southeast,
Brazil West-Central,
Burkina,
Cameroon,
Central African Republic,
Chad,
Colombia,
Congo,
Costa Rica,
Cuba,
Dominican Republic,
El Salvador,
French Guiana,
Gabon,
Gambia,
Ghana,
Guatemala,
Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau,
Guyana,
Haiti,
Honduras,
Ivory Coast,
Jamaica,
Leeward Is.,
Liberia,
Mali,
Mauritania,
Mexico Central,
Mexico Gulf,
Mexico Northeast,
Mexico Northwest,
Mexico Southeast,
Mexico Southwest,
Nicaragua,
Niger,
Nigeria,
Panamá,
Paraguay,
Peru,
Senegal,
Sierra Leone,
Suriname,
Tanzania,
Togo,
Trinidad-Tobago,
Uganda,
Venezuela,
Windward Is.,
Zaïre
Introduced into:
Hawaii,
India,
New Caledonia,
Thailand