{"title":"A catalogue of Philippine Hymenoptera (with a bibliography, 1758-1963).","authors":"C. Baltazar, Norm Johnson, Joe Cora","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.23590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.23590","url":null,"abstract":"There are 2141 species and subspecies listed and classified in this catalogue; additional 36 species of doubtful occurrence and 53 species erroneously recorded from the Philippines are also included. New names are proposed for 5 species bearing preoccupied names. The total number of new combinations is 200; total for new specific synonyms is 63. A count of the genera and subgenera of Hymenoptera incorporated into this catalogue is 676; not included are 62 braconid genera and 119 ichneumonid genera and 4 subgenera, whose occurrence has been reported in the Philippines by Baltazar (1962 & 1964), but no species are listed under these genera. Type designations are made for 2 chalcid genera, namely, Monacon Waterston and Neoplectrus Ferriere. A new generic synonym is given: (Conagenia Banks) —Auplopus Spinola. *v I N T R O D U C T I O N This catalogue brings together the widely scattered information on Philippine Hymenoptera covering the past 205 years. Originally the review of literature included al l works on Philippine species published before 1959, but w i th many important revisions and catalogues appearing recently, i t was neccessary to incorporate these so as to up-date the catalogue to 1963. Four papers (by Bradley, Betrem & Baltazar) published i n 1964 available at the time of wr i t ing were also reviewed. The order Hymenoptera includes the sawflies, wood wasps, parasites of other insects that are used in biological control work, gall wasps, fig wasps, ants, bees, and various kinds of wasps and related forms. The earliest listing of Philippine Hymenoptera could be credited to F. Smith's catalogue of the aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago (1870) 1871. There were 61 species reported f rom the Philippines. Father Casto de Elera of the Universi ty of Santo Tomas, Manila, published his Catalogo sistematico de toda la fauna Filipinas i n 1895. I n volume 2, pp. 238-47, he listed 53 species of Hymenoptera f rom the Philippines and also included 15 European species found i n the Museum of the University of Santo Tomas. The Philippine species appear i n the catalog of the Hymenoptera of the wor ld by Dalla Torre, from 1892 to 1902. When Ashmead prepared his first list of the Hymenoptera of the Philippine Islands i n 1904, he had only 183 species after describing 2 genera and 31 new species. He stated that many doubtful species mentioned by Elera were not included i n the list. His second list (1904) contained 228 species after discovering 4 new genera and 45 species. He found out later that he had overlooked some papers so he published a th i rd list i n 1905. He described 2 additional genera and 28 new species, bringing the total number to 256 species. Evidently Ashmead erroneously included many species which were marked by Dalla Torre as occurring in \" Insulae asiaticae \" or \" Insul Arch ipe lago\" ; some species f rom \"Zulu\" , \"Sula Is.\" or \"Zululand\" must have been mistaken for Sulu i n the Philippines. Th","PeriodicalId":155529,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Insects Monograph","volume":"157 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1966-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133754556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}