List of Hymenoptera of Ireland

Superfamily Pamphilioidea

• Pamphilidae (leaf-rolling / web-spinning sawflies) 8 species

including

• Pamphilius hortorum
• Pamphilius betulae
• Pamphilius sylvaticus

Superfamily Siricoidea

• Siricidae (horntail, wood wasp) 5 species including
• Urocerus gigas
• Sirex cyaneus
• Sirex juvencus
• Sirex noctilio
• Xeris spectrum

Superfamily Cephoidea (stem sawflies)

Superfamily Evanioidea

• Gasteruptiidae 1 species
• Gasteruption jaculator

Superfamily Platygastroidea

• Platygastridae (parasitoid wasps) 65 species
• Scelionidae (parasitoid wasps) 28 species

Superfamily Proctotrupoidea

• Diapriidae (tiny wasps) 185 species including
• Ismarus dorsiger
• Heloridae 2 species
• Proctotrupidae 36 species

Superfamily Ceraphronoidea

• Ceraphronidae 6 species
• Megaspilidae 13 species

Superfamily Cynipoidea

• Figitidae (parasitoid wasps) 56 species
• Cynipidae (gall wasps / gallflies) 39 species

including

• Andricus kollari
• Andricus foecundatrix
• Andricus lignicola
• Biorhiza pallida
• Neuroterus albipes
• Neuroterus anthracinus
• Neuroterus numismalis
• Neuroterus quercusbaccarum
• Ibaliidae 1 species

References

• Gavin R. Broad Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera Introduction Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e1113 (17 Jun 2014)
• Gavin R. Broad, Mark R. Shaw and H. Charles J. Godfray Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Braconidae Biodiversity Data Journal 2016; (4): e8151.Published online 2016 Apr 21. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e8151
• Gavin R. Broad and Laurence Livermore Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Evanioidea Biodivers Data J. 2014; (2): e1116.Published online 2014 Jun 17. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1116
• Gavin R. Broad Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae Biodivers Data J. 2016; (4): e9042.Published online 2016 Jul 5. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e9042
• Peter N. Buhl, Gavin R. Broad and David G. Notton Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Platygastroidea Biodivers Data J. 2016; (4): e7991.Published online 2016 Apr 22. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e7991
• Dale-Skey N, Askew R R, Noyes J S, Livermore and Broad GR Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Chalcidoidea and Mymarommatoidea.Biodivers Data J. 2016 Jun 6;(4):e8013. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e8013. eCollection 2016.
• Gavin R. Broad Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Proctotrupoidea Biodivers Data J. 2016; (4): e7936.Published online 2016 Apr 15. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e7936
• Andrew D. Liston, Guy T. Knight, David A. Sheppard, Gavin R. and Laurence Livermore Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Sawflies, ‘Symphyta’ Biodivers Data J. 2014; (2): e1168.Published online 2014 Aug 29. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1168
• Gavin R Broad Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Trigonaloidea Biodivers Data J. 2016; (4): e7935.Published online 2016 Apr 15. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e7935
• George R. Else, Barry Bolton, and Gavin R. Broad Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - aculeates (Apoidea, Chrysidoidea and Vespoidea) Biodivers Data J. 2016; (4): e8050. Published online 2016 Apr 7. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e8050
• Gavin R. Broad and Laurence Livermore Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Ceraphronoidea Biodivers Data J. 2014; (2): e1167. Published online 2014 Aug 27. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1167

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)

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
• Vol 7 Part 1. Hymenoptera - Ichneumonoidea (Pimplinae). M. G. Fitton, M. R. Shaw and I. D. Gauld
• Vol 7 Part 2a i. Hymenoptera - Ichneumonoidea. J. F. Perkins
• Vol 7 Part 2a ii. Hymenoptera - Ichneumonoidea. J. F. Perkins
• Vol 7 Part 2b. Ichneumonidae - Orthopelmatinae & Anomaloninae. I. D. Gauld & P. A. Mitchell
• Vol 7 Part 11. Classification & biology of braconid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). M.R. Shaw & T. Huddleston
• Vol 8 Part 1a. Hymenoptera. Cynipoidea. Key to families and subfamilies and Cynipinae (including galls). R. D. Eady and J. Quinlan
• Vol 8 Part 1b. Hymenoptera. Cynipoidea. Eucoilidae. John Quinlan
• Vol 8 Part 2a. Hymenoptera 2. Chalcidoidea Section (a). Ch. Ferrière and G. J. Kerrich
• Vol 8 Part 2b. Hymenoptera 2. Chalcidoidea Section (b). R. R. Askew
• Vol 8 Part 3d i. Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea. Diapriidae subfamily Diapriinae. G. E. J. Nixon
• Vol 8 Part 3d ii. Hymenoptera. Proctotrupoidea. Diapriidae subfamily Belytinae. G. E. J. Nixon
• Antwiki