# List of Hymenoptera of Ireland

At least 3,042 species of Hymenoptera are known to occur in Ireland. The true number of species occurring in Ireland is thought to be significantly greater than this figure.

## Suborder Symphyta (sawflies)
### Superfamily Xyeloidea

* Xyelidae 1 species
* Xyela julii

### Superfamily Pamphilioidea

* Pamphilidae (leaf-rolling / web-spinning sawflies) 8 species
including
* Pamphilius hortorum
* Pamphilius betulae
* Pamphilius sylvaticus

### Superfamily Siricoidea

* Siricidae (horntail, wood wasp) 5 species including
* Urocerus gigas
* Sirex cyaneus
* Sirex juvencus
* Sirex noctilio
* Xeris spectrum

### Superfamily Cephoidea (stem sawflies)

* Cephidae 1 species
* Calameuta pallipes

### Superfamily Tenthredinoidea

* Argidae (some sawflies) 7 species including
* Arge cyanocrocea
* Arge ustulata
* Sterictiphora geminata
* Cimbicidae (large-bodied, often hairy sawflies) 10 species including
* Abia sericea
* Cimbex femoratus
* Trichiosoma lucorum
* Trichiosoma vitellina
* Diprionidae (conifer sawflies) 3 species including
* Neodiprion sertifer
* Diprion pini
* Tenthredinidae (many sawflies) 239 species including
* Aglaostigma aucupariae
* Aglaostigma fulvipes
* Allantus cinctus
* Amauronematus lateralis
* Aneugmenus padi
* Apethymus serotinus
* Athalia circularis
* Athalia cordata
* Athalia lugens
* Athalia rosae
* Athalia scutellariae
* Calameuta pallipes
* Caliroa cerasi
* Cladius pectinicornis
* Dolerus aeneus
* Dolerus aericeps
* Dolerus bajulus
* Dolerus germanicus
* Dolerus madidus
* Dolerus nitens
* Dolerus picipes
* Dolerus varispinus
* Dolerus vestigialis
* Empria liturata
* Endelomyia aethiops
* Euura pavida
* Eutomostethus ephippium
* Eriocampa ovata
* Fenella nigrita
* Fenusa dohrnii
* Fenusa pumila
* Fenusella hortulana
* Fenusella nana
* Halidamia affinis
* Hemichroa australis
* Hemichroa crocea
* Heterarthrus microcephalus
* Heterarthrus nemoratus
* Heterarthrus vagans
* Hoplocampa pectoralis
* Macrophya duodecimpunctata
* Macrophya punctumalbum
* Mesoneura opaca
* Metallus pumilus
* Monophadnoides rubi
* Monostegia abdominalis
* Monsoma pulveratum
* Nematus lucidus
* Nematus myosotidis
* Nematus ribesii
* Nematus spiraeae
* Nematinus acuminatus
* Nesoselandria morio
* Pachynematus clitellatus
* Pachyprotasis antennata
* Pachyprotasis rapae
* Periclista albida
* Perineura rubi
* Pristiphora geniculata
* Pristiphora cincta
* Pristiphora laricis
* Pristiphora mollis
* Pristiphora staudingeri
* Profenusa pygmaea
* Pseudodineura fuscula
* Rhogogaster viridis
* Selandria serva
* Strombocerus delicatulus
* Strongylogaster multifasciata
* Tenthredo arcuata
* Tenthredo atra
* Tenthredo balteata
* Tenthredo brevicornis
* Tenthredo ferruginea
* Tenthredo livida
* Tenthredo colon
* Tenthredo mesomela
* Tenthredo mioceras
* Tenthredo moniliata
* Tenthredo notha
* Tenthredo obsoleta
* Tenthredo temula
* Tenthredopsis nassata
* Tenthredopsis scutellaris

## Suborder Apocrita (wasps, bees, ants)

See List of Hymenoptera (Apocrita) of Ireland

### Superfamily Chrysidoidea (parasitoid and cleptoparasitic wasps)

* Dryinidae 18 species
* Bethylidae (aculeate wasps) 3 species
* Chrysididae (cuckoo/emerald wasp) 6 species

### Superfamily Vespoidea

* Tiphiidae (flower wasps) 1 species
* Mutillidae (velvet ants) 1 species
* Formicidae (ants) 20 + species
* Pompilidae (spider wasps) 13 species
* Vespidae (many eusocial and solitary wasps) 14 species

### Superfamily Apoidea (sphecoid wasps and bees)

* Sphecidae (many parasitoidal wasps) 2 species
* Crabronidae 39 species
* Apidae (bees) 100 species
* Andrenidae (mining bees)

## Suborder Parasitica (parasitoid wasp)
### Superfamily Chalcidoidea (chalcid wasps)

Source:
* Aphelinidae (tiny parasitic wasps) 11 species
* Chalcididae (parasitoid and hyperparasitoid wasps) 1 species
* Encyrtidae (parasitic wasps) 59 species
* Eulophidae 140 species
* Eupelmidae (parasitic wasps) 3 species including,
** Eupelmus vesicularis 1 species
* Eurytomidae 17 species
* Mymaridae (fairyflies / fairy wasps) 21 species
* Ormyridae (parasitic wasps) 1 species
* Pteromalidae (parasitoid wasps) 167 species
* Tetracampidae (parasitic wasps) 2 species
* Torymidae 32 species
* Trichogrammatidae (tiny wasps) 3 species

### Superfamily Ichneumonoidea

* Ichneumonidae (ichneumon wasps) 1,135 species including
* Ichneumon sarcitorius
* Ichneumon insidiosus
* Ichneumon extensorius
* Rhyssa persuasoria
* Anomalon cruentatum
* Alomya debellator
* Pimpla rufipes
* Pimpla turionellae
* Pimpla ovivora
* Agrothereutes abbreviatus
* Cratichneumon coruscator
* Amblyjoppa fuscipennis
* Vulgichneumon saturatorius
* Diplazon laetatorius
* Euceros albitarsus
* Astiphromma sericans
* Ophion luteus
* Xorides fuligator
* Braconidae (parasitoid wasps) 529 species including
* Chorebus lateralis
* Cotesia glomerata
* Allurus lituratus
* Agathis breviseta
* Atormus victus
* Blacus humilis
* Centistes ater
* Chorebus lateralis
* Coelinidea elegans
* Dolopsidea indagator
* Hygroplitis rugulosus
* Laotris striatula
* Microplitis spectabilis
* Opius pygmaeator
* Phaedrotoma aethiops
* Praon abjectum
* Synelix semirugosa
* Trachionus hians
* Zele caligatus

### Superfamily Evanioidea

* Gasteruptiidae 1 species
* Gasteruption jaculator

### Superfamily Platygastroidea

* Platygastridae (parasitoid wasps) 65 species
* Scelionidae (parasitoid wasps) 28 species

### Superfamily Proctotrupoidea

* Diapriidae (tiny wasps) 185 species including
* Ismarus dorsiger
* Heloridae 2 species
* Proctotrupidae 36 species

### Superfamily Ceraphronoidea

* Ceraphronidae 6 species
* Megaspilidae 13 species

### Superfamily Cynipoidea

* Figitidae (parasitoid wasps) 56 species
* Cynipidae (gall wasps / gallflies) 39 species
including
* Andricus kollari
* Andricus foecundatrix
* Andricus lignicola
* Biorhiza pallida
* Neuroterus albipes
* Neuroterus anthracinus
* Neuroterus numismalis
* Neuroterus quercusbaccarum
* Ibaliidae 1 species