Abstract

The collection of the Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (Baku) features wasps of the family Sphecidae represented by 34 species from 9 genera. Of these, 11 species were first recorded in the fauna of Azerbaijan: Chalybion flebile Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1845; Sceliphron madraspatanum (Fabricius, 1781); Prionyx lividocinctus (A. Costa, 1858); P. haberhaueri (Radoszkowski, 1871); P. subfuscatus (Dahlbom, 1845); Podalonia caucasica (Mocsary, 1883); P. tydei Le Guillou 1841; Ammophila terminata (F. Smith, 1856); A. campestris (Latreille, 1809); A. occipitalis (F. Moravitz, 1880); and A. gracillima Taschenberg, 1869. In total, the collection contains 34 wasp species, of which 34 are from Azerbaijan, 15 from Iran and 1 from Russia. Data on the general geographic distribution are given for each species.

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