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Authors
Broad, G
Issue date
2014-06-17Submitted date
2018-06-07Subject Terms
BritainIreland
fauna
Hymenoptera
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The last complete checklist of the British and Irish Hymenoptera was that of Fitton et al. (1978). Much has changed in the intervening 36 years, including many changes to the higher classification of Hymenoptera and, of course, the discovery of many additional species. In producing this checklist we (the authors of the various chapters) have tried to provide a useful entry to the literature dealing with the identification and classification of the species involved, particularly for the less familiar parasitoid groups. The checklist also begins the process of summarising data on species' distribution on a country-level basis. I hope that this will serve to stimulate increased interest in this relatively neglected part of the British and Irish fauna. This volume serves as a standard reference point for the British and Irish Hymenoptera fauna, and, hopefully, provides a backbone to recording efforts and the underlying taxonomy. Having an endpoint to this project has stimulated much research in to our fauna, including the critical examination of museum collections, and thus pushed some checklist sections to a state they might not otherwise have reached. Of course, a checklist is never finished. The next incarnation will be digital, and the checklist is already in the process of migrating to a Scratchpad (Hymenoptera of the British Isles), where updates will be maintained as and when changes occur.Citation
Broad G (2014) Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Introduction. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e1113. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1113Publisher
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Biodiversity Data JournalType
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© Broad G. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The attached file is the published version of this article.ISSN
1314-2836EISSN
1314-2828ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3897/BDJ.2.e1113
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