A comprehensive faunistic list is provided. The previously unknown male of Miscophus chrysis is also described and illustrated. Three new species, Bembix arabica Edmardash & Gadallah, Oryttus pulawskii Gadallah & Edmardash, and Oxybelus ecarinatus Gadallah & Edmardash, are described and illustrated. Six other species are also newly recorded for Saudi Arabia: Liris maidli (Arnold), Oxybelus diphyllus (Costa), Oxybelus phyllophorus Kohl, Parapiagetia erythropoda (Cameron), Pison atrum (Spinola) (Bembicinae), and Tachysphex buyssoni Morice (Crabroninae). The genus Oryttus Spinola is recorded for the first time in Saudi Arabia. The African species Miscophus chrysis Kohl and Parapiagetia bidens Pulawski are recorded here for the first time for the Arabian Peninsula, as well as Cerceris rubida (Jurine). This material comprises 21 species within 13 genera and three subfamilies (Bembicinae, Crabroninae and Philanthinae). The present study is based on specimens collected from the Jazan Province (southwestern Saudi Arabia). A new form (form D) of Diolcogaster mayae (Shestakov, 1932) (Braconidae: Microgastrinae) from the Farasan Islands is described, illustrated, and compared with the previous forms collected in Iran and other countries. The hitherto unknown male of Braconella minor Szépligeti, 1906 (Braconinae) is described for the first time. Coccygidium luteum (Brullé, 1846) and the genera, Diolcogaster Ashmead, 1900 (Microgastrinae) and Yelicones Cameron, 1887 (Rogadinae) are new records for Saudi Arabia. The braconid subfamilies Gnamptodontinae, Hormiinae and Pambolinae are recorded here for the first time for the Arabian Peninsula, as well as the genera Adelius Haliday, 1833 (Cheloninae) and Braconella Szépligeti, 1906 (Braconinae). (Rogadinae), and Avga saudita Gadallah & Edmardash, sp. Two new species of the genus Aleiodes Wesmael, 1838 (Braconidae: Rogadinae) and one new species of Avga Nixon, 1940 (Braconidae: Pambolinae), collected from Farasan Islands, Jazan, south-western part of Saudi Arabia, are described and illustrated: Aleiodes farasanensis Gadallah & Edmardash, sp.
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