Weblinks: Hymenoptera

Description of the Proctotrupidae family of parasitic wasps found in North America.
 

The national society dedicated to studying and recording bees, wasps & ants (aculeate Hymenoptera)  in Britain & Ireland.

Check list of the (c3,000) British and Irish Ichneumonidae.

German/English forum discussing Hymenoptera.
 

Photographic gallery of the Ichneumonidae familes.

Identification key to the subfamilies of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) by Gavin Broad of the Dept. of Entomology, The Natural History Museum.
 
This key is a 9MB pdf and a little complicated to use without a specimen.
 

Identifying ichneumonids can be a daunting process, with about 2,400 species in Britain and Ireland. These are currently classified into 32 subfamilies (there are a few more extralimitally). Rather few of these subfamilies are reconisable on the basis of simple morphological character states, rather, they tend to be reconisable on combinations of characters that occur convergently and in different permutations across various groups of ichneumonids.

Photographic gallery of insects found around Osnabrück in Germany. Manly hymenoptera, including Ichneumonidae, Vespidae, Chrysididae, Symphyta, and Apidae. Other insect orders too including Diptera, Lepidoptera, and Hemiptera.

 

A guide designed to assist users to identify invasive ant species commonly encountered in the Pacific Island region. The guide covers four subfamilies, 20 genera and 44 species.
 
Has a glossary of terms with very useful diagrams and descrptions.
 

Bioinformatics resource for wasps recorded from the Afrotropical biogeographical region (Africa south of the Sahara including Madagascar and smaller surrounding islands).
 

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