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 Paracyphononyx ruficrus (Klug, 1834) Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia ( Abu Zoherah et al. 1993 ; Wahis 2002; Gadallah & El-Barty 2011 ), Yemen ( Wahis 2000a , 2002), United Arab Emirates ( Schmid-Egger 2017 ). Extralimital distribution: Asia minor , Egypt , Iran , Israel , South Africa , Zimbabwe ( Arnold 1936 ; Haupt 1962 ; Wahis 2002; Wolf 2003 ; Ghahari et al. 2014 ; Falahatpishe et al. 2016 ).