Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e8151 doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e8151 Taxonomic Paper Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Braconidae Gavin R. Broad‡§, Mark R. Shaw , H. Charles J. Godfray| ‡ The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom § National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom | University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Corresponding author: Gavin R. Broad (
[email protected]) Academic editor: Pavel Stoev Received: 17 Feb 2016 | Accepted: 11 Apr 2016 | Published: 21 Apr 2016 Citation: Broad G, Shaw M, Godfray H (2016) Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Braconidae. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e8151. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e8151 Abstract Background The checklist of British and Irish Braconidae is revised, based in large part on the collections of the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, and the Natural History Museum, London. Distribution records are provided at the country level together with extensive synonymy and bibliography. New information Of the 1,338 species regarded as valid, presumed native and certainly identified, 83 are here recorded for the first time from the British Isles. One new synonym is established (Dyscritus suffolciensis Morley, 1933 = Syntretus splendidus (Marshall, 1887) syn. nov.) Keywords Britain, Ireland, fauna, Ichneumonoidea © Broad G et al. 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. 2 Broad G et al. Introduction The Braconidae is one of two families of the superfamily Ichneumonoidea, along with the Ichneumonidae. Given the size of each family in Britain (over 1,300 braconids and 2,500 ichneumonids) we are publishing the two checklists separately.