67 urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:0EB7B745-BA33-591F-8755-8E4C5B0D1E08 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:46D8CEF4-19D6-4C04-A352-F60839BA3C4F Check List CheckList 1809-127X Pensoft Publishers 10.15560/20.2.564 116336 Notes on Geographic Distribution Hymenoptera Asia First records of the families Metapelmatidae and Neanastatidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) in Saudi Arabia Usman Syeda Uzma https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2578-2515 1 Writing - original draft Investigation Khan Farmanur Rahman insectqh11@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8906-709X 2 Conceptualization Funding acquisition Ahmad Syed Kamran https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6211-2345 3 Writing - review and editing Alhewairini Saleh Sulaiman https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2770-7412 2 Formal analysis Resources Visualization Anwar Prince Tarique ta.friday@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1682-0033 4 Conceptualization Writing - review and editing Methodology Mohammad Ali Jauhar University, Rampur, India Mohammad Ali Jauhar University Rampur India Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia Qassim University Buraydah Saudi Arabia Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh India Aligarh College of Education, Aligarh, India Aligarh College of Education Aligarh India

Corresponding authors: Farmanur Rahman Khan (insectqh11@gmail.com), Prince Tarique Anwar (ta.friday@gmail.com).

Academic editor: Avunjikkattu Parambil Ranjith

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The families Metapelmatidae and Neanastatidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) are recorded for the first time from Saudi Arabia based on the presence of Metapelma mirabile Brues, 1906 and Neanastatus africanus Ferrière, 1938, respectively.