Fauna Europaea: Hymenoptera – Apocrita (excl. Ichneumonoidea)

Abstract

Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus region), and some additional information. The Fauna Europaea project covers about 230,000 taxonomic names, including 130,000 accepted species and 14,000 accepted subspecies. This represents a huge effort by more than 400 contributing specialists throughout Europe and is a unique (standard) reference suitable for many users in science, government, industry, nature conservation and education.Hymenoptera is one of the four largest orders of insects, with about 130,000 described species. In the Fauna Europaea database, ‘Hymenoptera - Apocrita (excluding Ichneumonoidea)’ comprises 13 superfamilies, 52 families, 91 subfamilies, 38 tribes and 13,211 species. The paper includes a complete list of taxa dealt with, the number of species in each and the name of the specialist responsible for data acquisition. As a general conclusion about the European fauna of Hymenoptera, the best known countries in terms of recorded species are those from northwestern Europe, with the least known fauna probably in the more eastern and southeastern parts of Europe.

The Palaearctic types of Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest

“…West Palaearctic Chrysididae are well known (Linsenmaier 1999;Rosa & Soon 2012), but still some problems related to the interpretation of the oldest types are found (Rosa et al 2015c). The new frontier for European chrysidid is the molecular systematic study, which already helped in the identification of new species (Paukkunen et al 2015;Orlovskytė et al 2016), separation of subspecies raised to species rank (Soon & Sarma 2011) and will clarify the systematic placement of several taxa still considered as subspecies by Linsenmaier (1959aLinsenmaier ( , 1959bLinsenmaier ( , 1987Linsenmaier ( , 1987Linsenmaier ( , 1997Linsenmaier ( , 1999 (Mitroiu et al 2015). On the other hand, Chrysididae from East Palaearctic are less known.…”

Species traits explain long‐term population trends of Finnish cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae)

“…The nomenclature follows Paukkunen et al . () for cuckoo wasps and Fauna Europaea (Mitroiu, ) for the host species. The newly described species Chrysis parietis Budrys, 2016, which has been also recorded from Finland (Orlovskyt≐ et al ., ), was omitted from our study due to its difficult identification, which requires DNA‐barcoding.…”

The Palaearctic types of Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the Linsenmaier collection. Part 3. Elampini: genus Hedychrum Latreille

“…It includes about 150 species known worldwide, the majority of which occur in the Palaearctic region and Afrotropical region (Kimsey & Bohart 1991). The European fauna consists of 17 species only and several subspecies, some of which probably would deserve species rank (Rosa & Soon 2012;Mitroiu et al 2015); overall, about 60 species are known from the Palaearctic region.…”