List of Hymenoptera of Ireland
At least 3,042 species of Hymenoptera are known to occur in Ireland. The true number of species occurring in Ireland is thought to be significantly greater than this figure. [1] [2]
Suborder Symphyta (sawflies)
Superfamily Xyeloidea
- Xyelidae 1 species
Superfamily Pamphilioidea
- Pamphilidae 8 species
Superfamily Siricoidea
- Siricidae 5 species
Superfamily Cephoidea (stem sawflies)
- Cephidae 1 species
Superfamily Tenthredinoidea
- Argidae 7 species
- Cimbicidae 10
- Diprionidae 3 species
- Tenthredinidae 239 species [3]
Suborder Apocrita
See List of Hymenoptera (Apocrita) of Ireland
Superfamily Chrysidoidea
- Dryinidae 18 species
- Bethylidae 3 species
- Chrysididae 6 species
Superfamily Vespoidea
- Tiphiidae 1 species
- Mutillidae 1 species
- Formicidae 19 species
- Pompilidae 13 species
- Vespidae 14 species
Superfamily Apoidea
- Sphecidae 2 species
- Crabronidae 39 species
- Apidae 100 species
Suborder Parasitica (parasitoid wasp)
Superfamily Chalcidoidea (chalcid wasps)
- Aphelinidae 11 species
- Chalcididae 1 species
- Encyrtidae 59 species
- Eulophidae 140
- Eupelmidae 3 species
- Eurytomidae 17 species
- Mymaridae 21 species
- Ormyridae 1 species
- Pteromalidae 167 species
- Tetracampidae 2 species
- Torymidae 32 species
- Trichogrammatidae 3 species
Superfamily Ichneumonoidea
- Ichneumonidae 1135 species [5]
- Braconidae 529 species [6]
Superfamily Platygastroidea
- Platygastridae 65 species
- Scelionidae 28 species
Superfamily Proctotrupoidea
- Diapriidae 185 species
- Heloridae 2 species
- Proctotrupidae 36 species
Superfamily Ceraphronoidea
- Ceraphronidae 6 species
- Megaspilidae 13 species [9]
Superfamily Cynipoidea
- Ibaliidae 1 species
References
- ↑ O’Connor, J.P,Nash, R. and Broad, G. 2009 An Annotated Checklist of the Irish Hymenoptera The Irish Biogeographical Society and the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
- ↑ Regan, Eugenie; Nelson, Brian; McCormack, Stephen; Nash, Robert; O'Connor, James P. (2010). Countdown to 2010: Can we assess Ireland's insect species diversity and loss. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 110B (2): 109–117.
- ↑ O’Connor, J. P., Liston, A. D. and Speight, M. C. D. (1997) A review of the Irish sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) including a checklist of species. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 20: 2-99.
- ↑ O’Connor, J. P., Nash, R. and Bouček, Z.,2000 A catalogue of the Irish Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). Occasional Publication of the Irish Biogeographical Society. Number 6.
- ↑ O’Connor, J. P., Nash, R. and Fitton, M. G. , 2007 A catalogue of the Irish Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea).Occasional Publication of the Irish Biogeographical Society. Number 10.
- ↑ O’Connor, J. P., Nash, R. and van Achterberg, C. , 1999) A catalogue of the Irish Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea). Occasional Publication of the Irish Biogeographical Society. Number 4.
- ↑ O’Connor, J. P., Nash, R., Notton, D. G. and Fergusson, N. D. M. ,2004 A catalogue of the Irish Platygastroidea and Proctotrupoidea (Hymenoptera). Occasional Publication of the Irish Biogeographical Society. Number 7
- ↑ O’Connor, J. P., Nash, R., Notton, D. G. and Fergusson, N. D. M. ,2004 A catalogue of the Irish Platygastroidea and Proctotrupoidea (Hymenoptera). Occasional Publication of the Irish Biogeographical Society. Number 7
- ↑ O’Connor, J. P., 2007 A review of the Ceraphronoidea (Hymenoptera) including two species new to Ireland. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 31: 44-47.
- ↑ O’Connor, J. P. , 2003 A checklist of the Irish Figitidae excluding Charipinae and Eucoilinae (Hymenoptera). British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 16: 229-232.
- ↑ O’Connor, J. P. , 2004 A checklist of the Irish Eucoilinae (Hymenoptera: Figitidae) including fourteen species new to Ireland. Irish Naturalists’ Journal 27: 382-386.
- ↑ O’Connor, J. P. and Nash, R. , 1997 A review of the Irish Charipidae (Hymenoptera) including nine species new to Ireland. Irish Naturalists’ Journal 25: 410-412.
- ↑ O’Connor, J. P. , 2004 A review of the Irish gall-wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) with notes on the gall-midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and gall-mites (Acarina: Eriophyoidea). Irish Naturalists’ Journal 27: 335-343.
Further reading
- Edward Saunders, 1896 The Hymenoptera Aculeata of the British Islands : a descriptive account of the families, genera, and species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, with notes as to habits, localities, habitats London :L. Reeve & Co. online includes coloured plates. Very useful descriptions out of date nomenclature but see plates on commons and BWARS lists (links)
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- West Palearctic distribution Fauna Europaea
- Universal Chalcidoid Database
- Bees, Wasps and Ants - the British and Irish Aculeate Hymenoptera
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- Royal Entomological Society Handbooks Out of print parts available as free pdfs are:
- Vol 6 Part 1. Hymenoptera - Introduction and key to families (2nd edition). Owain Westmacott Richards
- Vol 6 Part 2a. Hymenoptera - Symphyta. R. B. Benson
- Vol 6 Part 2b. Hymenoptera - Symphyta. R. B. Benson
- Vol 6 Part 2c. Hymenoptera - Symphyta. R. B. Benson
- Vol 6 Part 3a. Hymenoptera - Bethyloidea (excluding Chrysididae). J. F. Perkins
- Vol 6 Part 3b. Hymenoptera - Aculeata (Scolioidea, Vespoidea and Sphecoidea). O.W.Richards
- Vol 6 Part 3c. Hymenoptera - Formicidae. Barry Bolton & Cedric A. Collingwood
- Vol 6 Part 4. Hymenoptera - Pompilidae. Michael C. Day
- Vol 6 Part 5. Cuckoo-Wasps. Hymenoptera, Chrysididae. D. Morgan
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