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 Episyron rufipes (Linnaeus, 1758) Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia ( Gadallah & El-Barty 2011 ; Loktionov & Lelej 2017a ), Yemen (Wahis 2002; Loktionov & Lelej 2017a ). Extralimital distribution: All Europe, Iran , Jordan , Ethiopia , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , North Africa, Russia (from European part to Sakhalin and Kamchatka in the East), Sudan , Syria , Turkey , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan (Junco y Reyes 1963 ; Priesner 1966a ; Day 1988 ; Wolf 1997 , 1998c , 2005 ; Wahis 2002; Zonstein 2002 ; Ebrahimi et al. 2008 ; Yildirim & Wahis 2011 ; Loktionov & Lelej 2017a ).