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research we did sampling from five regions of Sari, which is center of Mazandaran
province and situated in the longitude of 53˚ 05΄ and the latitude of 36˚ 04΄.

S a m p l i n g m e t h o d s a n d i n s t r u m e n t s . Window traps, Malaise
traps and Color traps were used for collecting pompilid specimens. They will be
presented hereafter as WT, MT and CT respectively.

Each WT consisted of a vertically held, glass sheet (window), 100 × 85 cm in height and
width that were embedded in a metal frame. The sheet had a plastic gutter tray along its
bottom edge (BARARI 2005). The tray was half-filled with 90 % ethanol and 1 % glycerin.
Each WT was erected about 10 cm from the ground. Two WT were set up in each sampling
locality.

We use of bidirectional MT (TOWNES 1962) that was made of fine black and white net.
The traps were about 200 cm high at the front peak, 150 cm high in the back, about 200
cm long and 120 cm wide. The walls were black and the roof was white. Each trap was
surmounted by a white plastic collecting pot that was tied to the middle long pole at the
peak in front. The collecting pot was a third-filled with 90 % ethanol and 1 % glycerin.
Two MT were set up in each sampling locality.

Each CT was a cup-like container with 145 and 100 mm diameters at top and bottom,
respectively, with 100 mm deep (personal communication with Hassan Barimani). The
plastic pans were painted yellow and white and placed about 100 cm from the ground.
Each CT half-filled with an aqueous solution of 10 drops per liter of detergent. We
positioned 10 yellow pan traps and 10 white pan traps in each sampling locality.

We set up all three kinds of traps on 9 April 2009 in five regions of Sari, checked once in
every two weeks until 29 September 2009 and entrapped pompilids were collected and
identified. Geographical situation of sampling localities are tabulated in table 1.

I d e n t i f i c a t i o n . Genera were identified using Wolf's identification keys (WOLF
1992). The species identifications were realized by the second author (R. Wahis,
Gembloux, Belgium).

The specimens are kept in the insect collection of Agricultural and Natural Resources
Research Center of Mazandaran (Sari).

Results

In total, 115 specimens of the Pompilidae were collected from different locations of
Sari/Iran during 2009 and examined. In addition, we examined some previously collected
materials preserved at Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of
Mazandaran, Sari/Iran. The identification results showed that these specimens belong to
24 species of 12 genera from two subfamilies (Pompilinae LATREILLE 1805 and
Pepsinae LEPELETIER 1845) as follows.

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