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 Microphadnus pumilus ( Costa , 1882) Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Bahrain , Oman , Yemen ( Falahatpishe et al. 2016 ), Saudi Arabia ( Gadallah & El-Barty 2011 ), United Arab Emirates ( Schmid-Egger 2017 ). Extralimital distribution: Southern Europe and Mediterranean to Mongolia , Russia (North Caucasus), Syria ( Priesner 1955 , 1965 ; Wolf & Perraudin 1978 ; Wolf 1990c, 1997, 2005; Wahis & Terzo 1996 ; Wahis 1998 , 2005 ; Zonstein 2001 , 2002 , 2007 ; Standfuss & Standfuss 2003 ; Yildirim & Wahis 2011 ; Loktionov & Lelej 2017a ), Iran ( Falahatpishe et al. 2016 ).