List of Parasitica of Great Britain
This article contains a list of wasps of Great Britain. The following species are of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor ant.
Family Dryinidae
Family Embolemidae
Family Bethylidae
Family Chrysididae (cuckoo wasps)
- Chrysis ignita
- Chrysis ruddii
- Chrysis viridula
- Cleptes britannicorum[1]
Family Tiphiidae
Family Mutillidae
Family Scoliidae
Family Pompilidae (spider wasps)
Subfamily Ceropalinae
Genus Ceropales
Subfamily Pepsinae
Genus Auplopus
Genus Cryptocheilus
Genus Dipogon
Genus Priocnemis
Subfamily Pompilinae
Genus Anoplius
Genus Aporus
Genus Episyron
Genus Evagetes
Genus Homonotus
Genus Pompilus
- Pompilus cinereus – leaden spider wasp
Family Vespidae
Subfamily Eumeninae (potter and mason wasps)
Genus Eumenes
- Eumenes coarctatus
Genus Pterochilus
- Pterochilus phaleratus
Genus Euodynerus
- Euodynerus quadrifasciatus
Genus Pseudepipona
- Pseudepipona herrichii – Purbeck mason wasp
Genus Odynerus
Subgenus Odynerus
- Odynerus melanocephalus
- Odynerus spinipes
Subgenus Spinicoxa
- Odynerus reniformis
- Odynerus simillimus
Genus Gymnomerus
Genus Microdynerus
- Microdynerus exilis
Genus Ancistrocerus
- Ancistrocerus antilope
- Ancistrocerus gazella
- Ancistrocerus nigricornis
- Ancistrocerus parietinus
- Ancistrocerus parietum
- Ancistrocerus quadratus
- Ancistrocerus scoticus
- Ancistrocerus trifasciatus
Genus Symmorphus
- Symmorphus bifasciatus
- Symmorphus connexus
- Symmorphus crassicornis
- Symmorphus gracilis
Subfamily Polistinae (paper wasps)
Genus Polistes
Subfamily Vespinae
Genus Vespa (hornets)
- Vespa crabro – European hornet
Genus Dolichovespula
Subgenus Dolichovespula
- Dolichovespula media – median wasp
Subgenus Pseudovespula
- Dolichovespula norwegica – Norwegian wasp
- Dolichovespula saxonica – Saxon wasp
- Dolichovespula sylvestris – tree wasp
Genus Vespula (typical social wasps)
Subgenus Vespula
- Vespula austriaca
- Vespula rufa – red wasp
Subgenus Paravespula
- Vespula germanica – German wasp
- Vespula vulgaris – common wasp
Family Sphecidae
Family Crabronidae
- Cerceris rybyensis – ornate tailed digger wasp
Family Philanthidae
- Philanthus triangulum – European beewolf
References
- ^ Rosa, Paolo (2 July 2024). "A journey through the history of the British Chrysididae (Hymenoptera): unexpected taxonomic problems, new records and description of a new species". Journal of Natural History. 58 (25–28): 840–889. doi:10.1080/00222933.2024.2352186.
- ^ Crowley, Liam M.; Pointon, Damon-Lee (2023-02-03). "The genome sequence of a beetle-killing wasp, Tiphia femorata (Fabricius, 1775)". Wellcome Open Research. 8. F1000 Research Ltd: 57. doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18893.1. ISSN 2398-502X.
- ^ Provisional atlas of the aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland. Huntingdon [England]: Biological Records Centre, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology. 1997. p. 16. ISBN 1-870393-39-2.
- ^ Field, Jeremy (1989). "Intraspecific Parasitism and Nesting Success in the Solitary Wasp Ammophila sabulosa". Behaviour. 110 (1/4): 23–46. ISSN 0005-7959.
- Else, George "Section 10 – Check List of British Hymenoptera Aculeata" in Archer, Michael (2005). Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society: Members' Handbook. ISBN 1-870393-79-1 (pp. 113 – 131)