Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Vespoidea, Pompilidae Author Gadallah, Neveen S. Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. E-mail: n _ gadallah @ hotmail. com Author Schmid-Egger, Christian Fischerstrasse 1, D- 10317 Berlin, Germany. E-mail: christian @ bembix. de Author Brothers, Denis J. School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X 01, Scottsville, 3209 South Africa. E-mail: brothers @ ukzn. ac. za text Zootaxa 2020 2020-03-20 4754 1 153 173 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.16 e681f105-1fef-4316-b405-47e832a47e5d 1175-5326 3719039 63E65DAC-BDCF-427E-93D3-8A028EBCB534 Cyphononyx bretonii (Guérin-Méneville, 1843) Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Oman ( Wahis 2000a ), Saudi Arabia ( Walker & Pittaway 1987 ; Abu Zoherah et al. 1993 ; Gadallah & El-Barty 2011 ; El-Hawagry et al. 2013 ), United Arab Emirates ( Taylor 2010 as “possibly” C. bretonii ), Yemen ( Wahis 2000a ). Extralimital distribution: Iran , North Africa, Tropical Africa, Southern Iberian Peninsula, Turkey ( Guiglia 1955 ; Wahis 2000a ; Wolf et al. 2009 ; Yildirim & Wahis 2011 ).