Biodiversity of the aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) of the Arabian Peninsula: Apoidea (Spheciformes), Crabronidae Author Gadallah, Neveen S. text Zootaxa 2020 2020-03-20 4754 1 20 73 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4754.1.6 dc6c4702-4e61-4efc-976d-1192bbd293a7 1175-5326 3719051 F180E4FF-2E26-406D-B988-AA7505CAA90A Tachysphex schmiedeknechti Kohl, 1883 Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Oman ( Guichard 1980 ; Hamer 1986 , 1988 ; Pulawski 2007 ; Roche 2007 ; Murai & Amr 2011 ), Saudi Arabia ( Gadallah & Assery 2004b ; Pulawski 2007 ; Gadallah et al. 2013 ), United Arab Emirates ( Roche 1981 ; Hamer 1986 , 1988 ; Gillett & Gillett 2005 ; Pulawski 2007 ; Howarth & Gillett 2008 ; Straka & Schmid-Egger 2017 ), Yemen ( Bingham 1898 as Tachysphex psilopus Kohl, 1884 ). Extralimital distribution: Africa south to Ghana and Kenya , Cyprus , Greece , Iran to Central Asia, southern Spain , Syria , Turkey , India .