5. Genus Mymilla Wesmael, 1851

Type species: Mutilla distincta Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1845, ♀, by subsequent designation of Ashmead 1903: 324 (junior subjective synonym of Mutilla calva Villers, 1789, ♀).

Forty-six Myrmilla species occur in the Palaearctic region, mainly in the Mediterranean, but only a few penetrate to the Afrotropical and Oriental Regions (Lelej 2007). Nine species of this genus are distributed in Azerbaijan, three of them are newly recorded from this country.