Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Chalcidoidea and Mymarommatoidea

Dale-Skey, Natalie; Askew, R. R.; Noyes, John S.; Livermore, Laurence; Broad, Gavin R.

doi:10.3897/bdj.4.e8013

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“…There are 73 families of Hymenoptera on the British and Irish checklist, taking into account some recent splits within the superfamily Apoidea ( Sann et al , 2018 ). Of these, the species of three families (Eucharitidae, Megalodontesidae, Orussidae) are considered extinct in Britain and Ireland, if indeed they ever naturally occurred here ( Dale-Skey et al , 2016 ; Liston et al , 2014 ). None of the species in 18 families reach the size threshold (around 5 mm) for the pilot phase of DToL so this leaves 52 families within scope of this phase of DToL and therefore to be prioritised for collecting and sequencing at least one species of each family.…”

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A sampling strategy for genome sequencing the British terrestrial arthropod fauna

Crowley¹,

Allen²,

Barnes³

et al. 2023

Wellcome Open Res

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The Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) project aims to sequence and assemble high-quality genomes from all eukaryote species in Britain and Ireland, with the first phase of the project concentrating on family-level coverage plus species of particular ecological, biomedical or evolutionary interest. We summarise the processes involved in (1) assessing the UK arthropod fauna and the status of individual species on UK lists; (2) prioritising and collecting species for initial genome sequencing; (3) handling methods to ensure that high-quality genomic DNA is preserved; and (4) compiling standard operating procedures for processing specimens for genome sequencing, identification verification and voucher specimen curation. We briefly explore some lessons learned from the pilot phase of DToL and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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A sampling strategy for genome sequencing the British terrestrial arthropod fauna

Crowley¹,

Allen²,

Barnes³

et al. 2023

Wellcome Open Res

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“…Chalcidoidea is one of the largest and most diverse Hymenoptera superfamilies, morphologically and biologically. Currently it is known to contain 22 families, and more than 22,000 described species worldwide (Dale-Skey et al, 2016). Most species of this superfamily are parasitoids and are considered as the most important group in biological control.…”

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Contribution to the knowledge of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) of Biskra, Algeria

Djouama¹,

Marniche²,

Doumandji-mitiche³

et al. 2018

Arx. Misc. Zool.

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Contribution to the knowledge of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) of Biskra, Algeria. We provide here a list of Chalcidoid wasps collected from the region of Biskra in the south east of Algeria in 2017. The list is comprised of 35 individuals classified into 17 species belonging Walker, 1839 (Chalcidoidea, Aphelinidae) and Pachyneuron groenlandicum Holmgren, 1872 (Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae) are new records from Algeria. Biological data and geographical distributions of each species are mentioned.

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Kinship effects in quasi-social parasitoids II: co-foundress relatedness and host dangerousness interactively affect host exploitation

Abdi

Hardy

Jucker

et al. 2020

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

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Sclerodermus brevicornis is a parasitoid that exhibits cooperative multi-foundress brood production. Prior work showed that the time lag to paralysis of small-sized hosts is shorter when co-foundress relatedness is higher and predicted that the greater risks and greater benefits of attacking larger hosts would combine with co-foundress relatedness to determine the limits to the size of a host that a female is selected to attack as a public good. It was also predicted that the time to host attack would be affected by an interaction between host size and relatedness. Here, we show empirically that both host size and kinship affect S. brevicornis reproduction and that they interact to influence the timing of host attack. We also find effects of co-foundress relatedness after hosts have been suppressed successfully. A public goods model using parameters estimated for S. brevicornis again suggests that selection for individual foundresses to attack and, if successful, to share hosts will be dependent on both the size of the host and the relatedness of the foundresses to any co-foundresses present. Females will not be selected to bear the individual cost of a public good when hosts are large and dangerous or when their relatedness to the co-foundress is low. We conclude that although reproductive behaviours exhibited by Sclerodermus females can be cooperative, they are unlikely to be exhibited without reference to kinship or to the risks involved in attempting to suppress and share large and dangerous hosts.

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Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Chalcidoidea and Mymarommatoidea

Cited by 7 publications

References 52 publications

A sampling strategy for genome sequencing the British terrestrial arthropod fauna

A sampling strategy for genome sequencing the British terrestrial arthropod fauna

Contribution to the knowledge of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) of Biskra, Algeria

Kinship effects in quasi-social parasitoids II: co-foundress relatedness and host dangerousness interactively affect host exploitation

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