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.

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Faculty of Biology Iasi Romania

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi Faculty of Biology Iasi Romania

Charles University Faculty of Sciences Prague Czech Republic

Gembloux Agro bio tech Université de Liège Gembloux Belgium

Museo de La Specola Firenze Italy

Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturi Torino Italy

Museum of Biological Diversity Columbus OH United States of America

Natural History Museum London United Kingdom

Naturhistorisches Museum Wien Wien Austria

Nusiceva 2a Belgrade Serbia

Private Linz Austria

Private Murr Germany

Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology Kiev Ukraine

Swedish Museum of Natural History Stockholm Sweden

Università degli Studi della Tuscia Viterbo Italy

Université de Mons Hainaut Mons Belgium

University of Amsterdam Faculty of Science Amsterdam Netherlands ; University of Eastern Finland Joensuu Finland

University of Belgrade Faculty of Biology Belgrade Serbia

University of Tartu Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences Tartu Estonia

Uppsala University Evolutionary Biology Centre Uppsala Sweden

Via Belvedere 8d Bernareggio Italy

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