Faunistic records of 68 flesh fly species are presented, and altogether, 22 species are recorded from Turkey for the first time. A further 46 species were recorded for the first time in at least one Turkish province. This paper presents the first locality data for four additional species, which were previously mentioned only generically in catalogues. One new synonym has been established, Servaisia (s. str.) rybaltschenkoi (Verves, 1977) = Blaesoxipha ataturkia Lehrer, 2008, syn. n. Two new combinations are proposed: Helicophagella (Parabellieria) dreyfusi (Lehrer, 1994), comb. n. and Helicophagella (s. str.) bellae (Lehrer, 2000), comb. n.

A checklist of 153 flesh fly species (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) recorded to date from Turkey is presented. Updating the list was necessary due to the numerous recent records. Records are listed according to provinces.

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All species are xerophilous and psammophilous and are mainly distributed in arid and subarid zones of the western Palearctic, Oriental, and Afrotropical regions. Larvae are kleptoparasites of different solitary bees and wasps. Materials and methodsThe material was collected in Ukraine in 1976-2012 and in Turkey in 2011 and deposed at IEE-NASU. Dried flies from the collections of BMNH, TAU, USNM, ZIN, and ZMUM were also observed and identified.All photographs were prepared by Dr VG Radchenko using a stereomicroscope Leica M205C (Leica Microsystems, Wetzlar, Germany) with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II Body camera (Canon Inc., Tokyo, Japan). As a mount was essentially not flat, a series of photographs were made at different focal depths. They were compiled into one sharp image, in accordance with the criterion of maximal power in the spatial high-frequency domain, with the software Helicon Focus Pro 5.3.14 X64