Ropalidia aethiopica ssp. aethiopica (du Buysson, 1906)

Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia (Richards 1985b; Kojima & Carpenter 1997), Yemen (Giordani Soika 1952; Kojima & Carpenter 1997; Gusenleitner 2007)

Extralimital distribution: Ethiopia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania.