Database Details : Hymenoptera Information System

Full name: Hymenoptera Information System
Short name: HymIS
Version: Sep 2013
Release date: 2013-09-01
Authors/editors: Kroupa A.S., Lohrmann V., Pulawski W.J. & Schmid-Egger C.
Taxonomic coverage: Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Hymenoptera - Crabronidae (new), Pompilidae (new), Rhopalosomatidae
English name of the group: Crabronids, spider-hunting and rhopalosomatid wasps
Number of living species 11,096
Number of living infraspecific taxa 866
Number of extinct species: 0
Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: 0
Number of synonyms: 13,751
Number of common names: 0
Total number of names: 25,713
Abstract: The HymIS database provides the taxonomic backbone for a global information system on bees and wasps. Data for the families Pompilidae or Spider-hunting wasps (2,981 valid taxa and 5,644 synonyms), the Crabronids or Crabronidae (9,134 valid taxa and 8,866 synonyms) and the Rhopalosomatidae (75 valid taxa and 17 synonyms) are available.
Organization: Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin, Germany
Website: http://www.hymis.eu/
Bibliographic citation: Kroupa A.S., Lohrmann V., Pulawski W.J. & Schmid-Egger C. (2017). HymIS: Hymenoptera Information System (version Sep 2013). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2017 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.