title: Fauna Europaea: Hymenoptera - Apocrita (excl. Ichneumonoidea).
abstract: Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus region), and some additional information. The Fauna Europaea project covers about 230,000 taxonomic names, including 130,000 accepted species and 14,000 accepted subspecies. This represents a huge effort by more than 400 contributing specialists throughout Europe and is a unique (standard) reference suitable for many users in science, government, industry, nature conservation and education. Hymenoptera is one of the four largest orders of insects, with about 130,000 described species. In the Fauna Europaea database, 'Hymenoptera - Apocrita (excluding Ichneumonoidea)' comprises 13 superfamilies, 52 families, 91 subfamilies, 38 tribes and 13,211 species. The paper includes a complete list of taxa dealt with, the number of species in each and the name of the specialist responsible for data acquisition. As a general conclusion about the European fauna of Hymenoptera, the best known countries in terms of recorded species are those from northwestern Europe, with the least known fauna probably in the more eastern and southeastern parts of Europe.
authors: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Faculty of Biology, Iasi, Romania.
authors: Mircea-Dan
authors: MD
authors: Mitroiu
authors: Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
authors: John
authors: J
authors: Noyes
authors: University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology, Belgrade, Serbia.
authors: Aleksandar
authors: A
authors: Cetkovic
authors: Nusiceva 2a, Belgrade (Zemun), Serbia.
authors: Guido
authors: G
authors: Nonveiller
authors: Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kiev, Ukraine.
authors: Alexander
authors: A
authors: Radchenko
authors: Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
authors: Andrew
authors: A
authors: Polaszek
authors: Uppsala University, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala, Sweden.
authors: Fredrick
authors: F
authors: Ronquist
authors: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors: Mattias
authors: M
authors: Forshage
authors: Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturi, Torino, Italy.
authors: Guido
authors: G
authors: Pagliano
authors: Private, Linz, Austria.
authors: Josef
authors: J
authors: Gusenleitner
authors: Museo de "La Specola", Firenze, Italy.
authors: Mario Boni
authors: MB
authors: Bartalucci
authors: Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy.
authors: Massimo
authors: M
authors: Olmi
authors: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Faculty of Biology, Iasi, Romania.
authors: Lucian
authors: L
authors: Fusu
authors: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Wien, Austria.
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Madl
authors: Museum of Biological Diversity, Columbus, OH, United States of America.
authors: Norman F
authors: NF
authors: Johnson
authors: Charles University, Faculty of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
authors: Petr
authors: P
authors: Jansta
authors: Gembloux Agro bio tech, Université de Liège, Gembloux, Belgium.
authors: Raymond
authors: R
authors: Wahis
authors: University of Tartu, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, Tartu, Estonia.
authors: Villu
authors: V
authors: Soon
authors: Via Belvedere 8d, Bernareggio, Italy.
authors: Paolo
authors: P
authors: Rosa
authors: Private, Murr, Germany.
authors: Till
authors: T
authors: Osten
authors: Université de Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium.
authors: Yvan
authors: Y
authors: Barbier
authors: University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands ; University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland.
authors: Yde
authors: Y
authors: de Jong
keywords: Apocrita; Biodiversity informatics; Fauna Europaea; Hymenoptera; taxonomic indexing