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 Ctenagenia vespiformis (Klug, 1834) Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia (Wahis 2002), United Arab Emirates ( Schmid-Egger 2017 ), Yemen ( Kohl 1906 as Pompilus vespiformis ; Guiglia 1955 ; Wahis 2000a , 2002). Extralimital distribution: Palaearctic and Afrotropical ( Kohl 1906 ; Guiglia 1955 ; Priesner 1955 ; Haupt 1962 ; Özbek et al. 2000 ; Wahis 2000a , 2002, 2005; Wolf 2004b , 2005 ; Yildirim & Wahis 2011 ; Ghahari et al. 2014 ).