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 (leaf-rolling / web-spinning sawflies) 8 species
Superfamily Siricoidea
- Siricidae (horntail, wood wasp) 5 species
Superfamily Cephoidea (stem sawflies)
- Cephidae 1 species
Superfamily Tenthredinoidea
- Argidae (some sawflies) 7 species
- Cimbicidae (large-bodied, often hairy sawflies) 10
- Diprionidae (conifer sawflies) 3 species
- Tenthredinidae (many sawflies) 239 species [4]
Suborder Apocrita (wasps, bees, ants)
See List of Hymenoptera (Apocrita) of Ireland
Superfamily Chrysidoidea (parasitoid and cleptoparasitic wasps)
- Dryinidae 18 species
- Bethylidae (aculeate wasps) 3 species
- Chrysididae (cuckoo/emerald wasp) 6 species
Superfamily Vespoidea
- Tiphiidae (flower wasps) 1 species
- Mutillidae (velvet ants) 1 species
- Formicidae (ants) 19 species
- Pompilidae (spider wasps) 13 species
- Vespidae (many eusocial and solitary wasps) 14 species
Superfamily Apoidea (sphecoid wasps and bees)
- Sphecidae (many parasitoidal wasps) 2 species
- Crabronidae 39 species
- Apidae (bees) 100 species
- Andrenidae (mining bees)
Suborder Parasitica (parasitoid wasp)
Superfamily Chalcidoidea (chalcid wasps)
- Aphelinidae (tiny parasitic wasps) 11 species
- Chalcididae (parasitoid and hyperparasitoid wasps) 1 species
- Encyrtidae (parasitic wasps) 59 species
- Eulophidae 140
- Eupelmidae (parasitic wasps) 3 species
- Eurytomidae 17 species
- Mymaridae (fairyflies / fairy wasps) 21 species
- Ormyridae (parasitic wasps) 1 species
- Pteromalidae (parasitoid wasps) 167 species
- Tetracampidae (parasitic wasps) 2 species
- Torymidae 32 species
- Trichogrammatidae (tiny wasps) 3 species
Superfamily Ichneumonoidea
- Ichneumonidae (ichneumon wasps) 1,135 species [7]
- Braconidae (parasitoid wasps) 529 species [8]
Superfamily Platygastroidea
- Platygastridae (parasitoid wasps) 65 species
- Scelionidae (parasitoid wasps) 28 species
Superfamily Proctotrupoidea
- Diapriidae (tiny wasps) 185 species
- Heloridae 2 species
- Proctotrupidae 36 species
Superfamily Ceraphronoidea
- Ceraphronidae 6 species
- Megaspilidae 13 species [11]
Superfamily Cynipoidea
- Figitidae (parasitoid wasps) 56 species [12][13][14]
- Cynipidae (gall wasps / gallflies) 39 species [15]
- 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 pdf full text
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ http://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/SpeciesGroup/23/Species/62326?FullDictionary=false&UseCommonNames=false
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ http://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/SpeciesGroup/23/Species/56027?FullDictionary=false&UseCommonNames=false
- ↑ 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. pdf full text
- ↑ 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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External links
- West Palearctic distribution Fauna Europaea
- Universal Chalcidoid Database
- Bees, Wasps and Ants - the British and Irish Aculeate Hymenoptera
- Bees of Ireland
- Faune de France Insectes Hyménoptères pdfs free downloads
- 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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