UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Fauna Europaea: Hymenoptera – Symphyta & Ichneumonoidea van Achterberg, K.; Taeger, A.; Blank, S.M.; Zwakhals, K.; Viitasaari, M.; Yu, D.S.K.; de Jong, Y. DOI 10.3897/BDJ.5.e14650 Publication date 2017 Document Version Final published version Published in Biodiversity Data Journal License CC BY Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): van Achterberg, K., Taeger, A., Blank, S. M., Zwakhals, K., Viitasaari, M., Yu, D. S. K., & de Jong, Y. (2017). Fauna Europaea: Hymenoptera – Symphyta & Ichneumonoidea. Biodiversity Data Journal, 5, [e14650]. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e14650 General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). 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Blank§, Kees Zwakhals |, Matti Viitasaari¶, Dicky Sick Ki Yu#, Yde de Jong ¤,«,» ‡ Naturalis, Leiden, Netherlands § Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg, Germany | Dr. Dreeslaan 204, Arkel, Netherlands ¶ Unaffiliated, Helsinki, Finland # Unaffiliated, Ontario, Canada ¤ University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands « Natural History Museum, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands » Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany Corresponding author: Kees van Achterberg ([email protected]), Yde de Jong ([email protected]) Academic editor: Michael Kuhlmann Received: 22 Jun 2017 | Accepted: 18 Jul 2017 | Published: 27 Jul 2017 Citation: van Achterberg K, Taeger A, Blank S, Zwakhals K, Viitasaari M, Yu D, de Jong Y (2017) Fauna Europaea: Hymenoptera – Symphyta & Ichneumonoidea. Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e14650. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e14650 Abstract Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all extant European terrestrial and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at the level of countries and major islands (west of the Urals and excluding the Caucasus region), and some additional information. The Fauna Europaea project comprises about 230,000 taxonomic names, including 130,000 accepted species and 14,000 accepted subspecies, which is much more than the originally projected number of 100,000 species. Fauna Europaea 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. For the Hymenoptera, taxonomic data from one grade (Symphyta) and one Superfamily (Ichneumonoidea), including 15 families and 10,717 species, are included. © van Achterberg K 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 van Achterberg K et al Ichneumonoidea is the largest superfamily of Hymenoptera and consisting of two extant families, Ichneumonidae and Braconidae. The costal cell of the fore wing is absent, the fore wing has at least two closed cells, the constriction between the mesosoma (thorax + first abdominal segment or propodeum) and the metasoma (remainder of abdomen) is distinct and the parasitoid larvae usually spin a silken cocoon. Also, the metasoma is ventrally partly desclerotized in the vast majority of ichneumonoids. Keywords Biodiversity, Informatics, Fauna Europaea, Taxonomic indexing, Zoology, Hymenoptera, Symphyta, Ichneumonoidea, Fauna Europaea, Taxonomic indexing Introduction In 1998 the European Commission published the European Community Biodiversity Strategy, providing a framework for development of Community policies and instruments in order to comply with the Convention on Biological Diversity. This Strategy recognises the current incomplete state of knowledge at all levels concerning biodiversity, which is a constraint on the successful implementation of the Convention. Fauna Europaea contributes to this Strategy by supporting one of the main themes: to identify and catalogue the components of European biodiversity into a database to serve as a basic tool for science and conservation policies. With regard to biodiversity in Europe, science and policies depend on sufficient knowledge of its components. The assessment of biodiversity, monitoring changes, sustainable exploitation of biodiversity, as well as much legislative work depends upon a validated taxonomic overview, in which Fauna Europaea plays a major role by providing a web-based information infrastructure with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at the level of countries and some relevant optional information. In this sense the Fauna Europaea database provides a unique reference for many user-groups such as scientists, governments, industries, conservation communities and educational programs. Fauna Europaea (FaEu) kicked off in 2000 as an EC-FP5 four-year project, delivering its first release in 2004 (Jong de et al. 2014). Fauna Europaea has continuously been updated, and after a further decade of steady progress, to efficiently disseminate the results of Fauna Europaea and to properly credit the Fauna Europaea contributors, modern e-publishing tools are being applied to prepare data papers on all 58 major taxonomic groups. For this purpose a special Biodiversity Data Journal Series has been compiled, called Contributions on Fauna Europaea (see also: Pensoft News item 17 Dec 2014). This work was initiated during the ViBRANT project and is further supported by the recently started EU BON project. Fauna Europaea: Hymenoptera – Symphyta & Ichneumonoidea 3 In the EU BON project also further steps will be made to implement Fauna Europaea as a basic tool and standard reference for biodiversity research and as a means to facilitate taxonomic expertise evaluation and management in Europe, including its contributions to the European Taxonomic Backbone (PESI / EU-nomen) project (Jong de et al. 2015). This paper is the first publication of the Fauna Europaea Hymenoptera (Symphyta & Ichneumonoidea) data sector as a BDJ data paper in the Fauna Europaea series. Although practically treated as a grade, Symphyta form a paraphyletic assemblage and are not a monophyletic clade; the name is used for all Hymenoptera with the abdomen broadly connected to the thorax and having wings with several closed cells or with cenchri present. The fore tibia has often two apical spurs and the larvae are usually caterpillar-like (“false caterpillars”, with 6-8 pairs of abdominal legs). Larvae boring in wood or stems are legless grub-like larvae; ovipositor usually very wide and saw-like, but narrow in Siricidae, Xiphydriidae and Orussidae. General description Purpose: Fauna Europaea is a database of the scientific names and distributions (at national or in some cases regional level) of all currently known extant multicellular European terrestrial and freshwater animal species. The database has been assembled by a large network of taxonomic specialists. An extended description of the Fauna Europaea project can be found in Jong de et al. 2014. A summary is given in the sections below. The Hymenoptera (Symphyta & Ichneumonidae) is one of the 58 Fauna Europaea major taxonomic groups, covering 10,717 species (Fig. 1). The data were collated by a network of 7 specialists (Table 1,Table 2). Table 1. Responsible specialists per family in Hymenoptera — Symphyta + Ichneumonidae. TAXONOMY EUROPE FAMILY SPECIALIST DATABASED UPDATED TOTAL TOTAL COMMENT (S) SPECIES NUMBERS DESCRIBED ESTIMATED (Fauna (Fauna SPECIES SPECIES Europaea) Europaea) (information- (knowledge- gap) gap) Argidae Andreas 64 55 71 c. 78 Taeger & Stephan Blank 4 van Achterberg K et al Blasticotomidae Andreas 1 1 1 1 Taeger & Stephan Blank Braconidae Kees van 3499 3602 3615 c. 4800 Resource: Taxapad Achterberg 2012 Cephidae Andreas 43 43 44 c. 48 Taeger & Stephan Blank Cimbicidae Andreas 54 48 49 c. 54 Taeger & Stephan Blank Diprionidae Andreas 23 19 19 c. 21 Taeger & Stephan Blank Heptamelidae 0 [3 as 3 (nov. fam.) Tenthredinidae] Ichneumonidae Kees 5865 5865 6644 c. 7300 Resource: Taxapad Zwakhals 2012 Megalodontesidae Andreas 22 22 25 c. 27 Taeger & Stephan Blank Orussidae: Andreas 7 7 6 c. 7 Taeger & Stephan Blank Pamphiliidae Andreas 60 55 59 Taeger & Stephan Blank Siricidae Andreas 19 17 19 c. 21 Taeger & Stephan Blank Fauna Europaea: Hymenoptera – Symphyta & Ichneumonoidea 5 Tenthredinidae Andreas 1042 1001 1034 c. 1130 [incl. Taeger