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 Batozonellus lacerticida (Pallas, 1771) Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Kuwait ( Al-Houty 1989 , 1997 both as Batazonellus lacerticida ). Extralimital distribution: Palaearctic from Portugal to Japan and Sweden to Iran , Morocco , Tunisia ( Ghahari et al . 2014 ). Remarks: Although this species has recently been included in the genus Parabatozonus Yasumatsu, 1936 in two recent country-limited catalogues ( Loktionov & Lelej 2017a , b), we prefer to retain it in Batozonellus pending more detailed analysis.