Checklist of british and irish hymenoptera - evanioidea.

Introduction

Abbreviations, rationale for species inclusion and additional information are given in the introductory article for the series. This article is the first in a series of 13 checklist sections covering the of the British Isles. For each genus and species the original combination and a list of synonyms is provided under the heading 'nomenclature'.

A corresponding up-to-date checklist for is maintained on the Hymenoptera of the British Isles site.

Distribution data for the are taken from Crosskey (1951), with additional references given under notes for each taxon. This is a small superfamily of three extant families, but particularly poorly represented in northern Europe. The (sometimes referred to as 'ensign wasps') are, where known, parasitoids/predators of cockroach oothecae (Crosskey 1951; Brown 1973) and are morphologically very distinct from the remaining families. Whilst rather similar in appearance, the and (Fig. 1) differ markedly in biology, with the single British aulacid,  (Jurine), being a koinobiont endoparasitoid of  larvae (see E.R. Skinner & W.G. Thompson's 1960 film, 'The Alder Woodwasp and its Insect Enemies', distributed by World Educational Films: http://worldeducationalfilms.com/the-alder-woodwasp-and-its-insect-enemies/) whilst species are essentially predators and cleptoparasites of solitary bee larvae (Malyshev 1964).

Figure 1.

Male (Linnaeus) (Wilmslow, Cheshire) (courtesy of A.M. Broome).

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Shuckard, 1841

Notes

Taxonomy follows Smith (2001).

Jurine, 1807

Dahlbom, 1837

Westwood, 1868

Provancher, 1882

Kieffer, 1910

Kieffer, 1910

Kieffer, 1910

Kieffer, 1910

Cushman, 1929

Jurine, 1807

Dahlbom, 1837

Ratzeburg, 1852

Distribution

England.

Latreille, 1802

Taxonomy follows Deans (2005).

Fabricius, 1775

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Linnaeus, 1758

(de Geer, 1773,

Olivier, 1792

Say, 1824

Blanchard, 1840

Le Guillou, 1841

Guérin-Méneville, 1844

Cameron, 1906

# Presumably an introduction to Britain as it parasitises the oothecae of non-native synanthropic cockroaches (). Crosskey (1951) could find no locality data for British specimens and there are no relevant specimens in NHM.

Leach, 1830

(Olivier, 1792)

Olivier, 1792

(Curtis, 1829,

Brullé, 1846 preocc.

(Westwood, 1851,

Kieffer, 1912

England.

Ashmead, 1890

Synonymic data mostly from Fauna Europaea.

Latreille, 1796

Fabricius, 1798

Bradley, 1909

Kieffer, 1910

Kieffer, 1910

Kieffer, 1911

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Linnaeus, 1758

misspelling

(Geoffrey 1785,

(Cresson 1864,

(Cresson 1864,

(Couper 1870,

(Thomson 1883,

(Thomson 1883,

(Thomson 1883,

Schletterer, 1885

Kieffer 1904

Kieffer 1904

Kieffer 1904

Kieffer, 1904

Kieffer 1910

(Kieffer 1910,

Kieffer 1912

Strand, 1912

(Watanabe 1934,

Townes 1950

Madl 1987

England, Wales, Ireland.

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Linnaeus, 1758

(Tournier, 1877,

(Abeille de Perrin, 1879,

(Costa, 1884,

Schletterer, 1885

England.

(Tournier, 1877)

Tournier, 1877

Schletterer, 1889

Szépligeti, 1903

(Tournier, 1877)

Tournier, 1877

(Thomson, 1883,

England, Wales (Alexander 1983).

(Tournier, 1877)

Tournier, 1877

misspelling

(Tournier, 1877,

Kieffer, 1904

England.