Notiophilus rufipes is a genus of ground beetle native to the Palearctic and the Near East. In Europe, it is found in Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Great Britain including the Isle of Man, Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, the Czech Republic, mainland Denmark, Estonia, mainland France, Germany, mainland Greece, Hungary, mainland Italy, Kaliningrad, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, mainland Norway, Poland, mainland Portugal, central, northern and southern Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, mainland Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Ukraine.