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Ghahari, H.: A faunistic study on digger wasps of Iran (Hymenoptera)
Natura Somogyiensis 32: 125-132 Kaposvár, 2018 DOl: 10.24394/NatSom.2018.32.125 Submitted: 25.10, 2018; Accepted: 05.11, 2018; Published: 10.12, 2018 www.smmi.hu/termtud/ns/ns.htm A faimistic study on digger wasps of Iran (Hymenoptera) Hassan Ghahari Department of Plant Protection, Yadegar- e- Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahre Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran; email: hghahari@yahoo.com Ghahari H.: A faunistic study on digger wasps of Iran (Hymenoptera). Abstract: This paper deals with distribution data of 53 species of Iranian digger wasps from 27 genera and three families, Ampulicidae (single species), Crabronidae (28 species, 16 genera) and Sphecidae (24 species, 9 genera). Eight species are new records for the fauna of Iran: Bembix diversipes F. Morawitz, 1889, Cerceris quadrifasciatus (Panzer, 1799), Lestica (Lestica) subterranea (Fabricius, 1775) (Crabronidae), Ammophila sabulosa sabulosa (Linnaeus, 1758), Podalonia tydei tydei (Le Guillou, 1841), Prionyx viduatus viduatus (Christ, 1791), Sceliphron (Sceliphron) spirifex (Linnaeus, 1758) and Sphex (Sphex) flavipennis Fabricius, 1793 (Sphecidae). Keywords: Ampulicidae, Crabronidae, Sphecidae, fauna, distribution, Iran Introduction The fauna of Iranian digger wasps has poorly been studied so far. The first work on this taxon was done by de Gussakovskij (1933), and after that many other contributions have been published: Beaumont (1957, 1970), Esmaili & Rastegar (1974), Ebrahimi (1993a, 1993b, 2000a, 2000b, 2005,2008), Ebrahimi et al. (1995), Ghazisoltanzadeh et al. (2006), Fallahzadeh et al. (2006, 2009), Sakenin et al. (2010, 2011), Samin et al. (2015), Rezaei & Fallahzadeh (2015), and Atbaei et al. (2015). Recently Jahantighi et al. (2017) listed 404 species belonging to 71 genera and 11 subfamilies for the fauna of Iran. The aim of this paper is a faunustic work on digger wasps collected from different regions of Iran and presenting of eight new country records. Material and methods The materials were collected from different regions of Iran using common handy entomological net and Malaise trap. Additionally, several materials were collected from some insect collections of Islamic Azad University (Science and Research, Qaemshahr, Rudehen, Garmsar and Shahre Rey Branches). Most of the specimens were identified by Dr. T. Ljubomirov and some by Dr. P. Nemkov, and are deposited in their collections. Classification and nomenclature were taken from Pulawski (2016). The localities of Iran are represented in the fig. 1. ISSN 1587-1908 (Print); ISSN 2062-9990 (Online)
