The Current Knowledge of the Pompilidae and Mutillidae (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) Fauna of Turkey Erol YILDIRIM 1 Arkady S. LELEJ 2 1 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Atatürk University, 25240, Erzurum, TURKEY, e-mails: yildirimerol@hotmail.com, eyildi@atauni.edu.tr 2 Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok-22, 690022, RUSSIA ABSTRACT This study is based on the material of the families Pompilidae and Mutillidae collected from different localities of Turkey in 1990-2014. In this study, 70 species and subspecies in 21 genera of the family Pompilidae and 38 species and subspecies in 18 genera of the family Mutillidae are listed. Among them: Deuteragenia variegata erythropa (Kohl, 1888); Priocnemis (Priocnemis) pellipleurus Wahis, 2006; Agenioideus (Agenioideus) gentilis (Klug, 1834); Arachnospila (Ammosphex) wesmaeli (Thomson, 1870) and Arachnotheutes turgidus (Tournier, 1890) from Pompilidae and subfamily Kudakrumiinae Krombein, 1979; genus Pseudomyrmosa Suárez, 1980 and Pseudomyrmosa minuta (Morawitz, 1894); Pseudophotopsis armeniaca (Skorikov, 1935); Physetopoda rameli Pagliano, 2009; Physetopoda deserta (Lelej, 1984) and Smicromyrme (Astomyrme) asiaticus Lelej, 1985 from Mutillidae are newly recorded from Turkey. New generic names are used in Pompilidae: Deuteragenia Šustera, 1912 for Dipogon sensu auct. and Parabatozonus Yasumatsu, 1936 for Batozonellus Arnold, 1937. In addition, new localities have been found for many species and subspecies, which have already been reported from Turkey. Key words: Hymenoptera, Pompilidae, Mutillidae, fauna, new records, Turkey. INTRODUCTION Turkey occupies Asia Minor between the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea and stretches into continental Europe. The variable topography of Turkey with isolated highlands formed along the border with Georgia, Armenia and Iran after the Pliocene, has contributed to neoendemism in this area (Ljubomirov and Yildirim, 2008). The family Pompilidae or spider wasps currently include 4855 species in 125 genera (Aguiar et al., 2013). These wasps are distributed throughout the World, but mostly in the tropical regions (Pitts et al., 2006). The spider wasps are solitary. Females usually nest in the ground, use a cavity in dry trees or grass, make clay nests on the stones, branches and trunks of the trees, as well as, on lower surface of the leaves. The females use the spiders as a prey, provisioning each cell with a single paralyzed spider. There are several cleptoparasitic genera, with the modes of cleptoparasitism differing among them (Shimizu et al., 2012). In the Palaearctic Region 650 species are reported (Lelej and Loktionov, 2012a). A total of 200 species and six subspecies J. Entomol. Res. Soc., 18 (1): 57-74 2016 ISSN:1302-0250