Hymenoptera (bees, wasps and ants)
In addition to the Hymenoptera, the Hymenoptera section also curates the Heteroptera, "Homoptera", Orthopteroidea (including Mantodea, Blattodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea and Saltatoria) and Phthiraptera. It currently comprises approx. 160,000 individuals from approx. 15,500 taxa, including collections (or parts thereof) from Wilhelm Aerts, Dietrich Bornhalm, Johannes Gallasch, Sigfrid Ingrisch, A. Jacobi, Johann Klapperich, Heinrich Klockenhoff, Richard Meinertzhagen, Rene Oberthür, August Reichensperger, R. Roesler, A. Schoop, Josef Szijj as well as the insect collections of Cologne Zoo and the disbanded Fuhlrott Museum in Wuppertal.
Contact person
Dr. Ralph S. Peters
- Head of Section Hymenoptera
Phone: +49 228 9122 290
E-Mail: r.peters@leibniz-lib.de
Projects
Phenotypic evolution in bumblebees
Management: Dr. Eckart Stolle
Thelytokia in honey bees
Management: Dr. Eckart Stolle
Publications
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2025/1
Dating the origin of a viral domestication event in parasitoid wasps attacking Diptera
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2039, 292
2025/1
Maximizing Identification Precision of Hymenoptera and Brachycera (Diptera) With a Non‐Destructive Metabarcoding Approach
Ecology and Evolution, 1, 15
2024/11
Een beknopte inleiding tot de haarbandwespen (Hymenoptera: Figitidae)
Entomologische berichten, 5, 84
2024/10
German Barcode of Life, Entdeckung und Beschreibung neuer Arten
2024/9
First records of the Hymenoptera superfamilies and families Mymarommatoidea: Mymarommatidae and Stephanoidea: Stephanidae in Georgia
Caucasiana, 3
2024/8
Protocol for the preparation of Wings and Wing Interference Pattern Imaging from ethanol preserved specimens
2024/8
Integrative characterisation of the Northwestern European species of Anacharis Dalman, 1823 (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Figitidae) with the description of three new species
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 97
2024/8
Exkursion in den Kaukasus: Der CaBOL BioBlitz 2022 in Armenien und Georgien
2024/6
Preserving morphology while extracting DNA: a non-destructive field-to-museum protocol for slide-mounted specimens
Biodiversity Data Journal, 12
2024/5
The obligate fig-pollinator family Agaonidae in Germany (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1, 71
2024/5
Characterising the north-western European species of Phaenoglyphis Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Charipinae) with novel insights from DNA barcode data
Biodiversity Data Journal, 12
2024/4
Standardized nuclear markers improve and homogenize species delimitation in Metazoa (vol 14, pg 543, 2023)
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 4, 15
2024/3
Small wasps, big muscles: Fore and hind leg modifications in chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)
Arthropod Structure & Development, 79
2024/3
Leibniz Research Network Biodiversity. (2024). 10 Must Knows from Biodiversity Science 2024 (Version 1). Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
2024/0
New evidence on the identity of the European Helorus species (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea, Heloridae)
Biodiversity Data Journal, 12
2024/0
Dating the origin of a viral domestication event in parasitoid wasps attacking Diptera
bioRxiv
2023/11
The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps
Cladistics, 1, 40
2023/7
More complex than you think: Taxonomic and temporal patterns of plant–pollinator networks of caraway (Carum carvi L.)
Molecular ecology, 13, 32
2023/7
Afrotropical Ceraphronoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) put back on the map with the description of 88 new species
European Journal of Taxonomy, 884
2023/5
Another crack in the Dark Taxa wall: a custom DNA barcoding protocol for the species-rich and common Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)
Biodiversity Data Journal, 11
2023/2
Standardized nuclear markers improve and homogenize species delimitation in Metazoa
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2, 14
2023/0
First record of Leptopilina japonica Novković & Kimura, 2011 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae) in Germany, a parasitoid of the Spotted Wing Drosophila Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura …
Journal of Applied Entomology, 147
2022/12
From hell’s heart I stab at thee! A determined approach towards a monophyletic Pteromalidae and reclassification of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)
Journal of Hymenoptera Research/Journal of Hymenoptera research, 94
2022/12
From hell’s heart I stab at thee! A determined approach towards a monophyletic Pteromalidae and reclassification of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 94
2022/10
Systematics and evolution of predatory flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) based on exon‐capture sequencing
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Employees
Dr. Sergio Leonardo Avila Calero
ztm Hymenoptera Postdoctoral researcherPhone: +49 228 9122 412
E-mail: s.avila-calero@leibniz-lib.deDr. Ralph S. Peters
ztm Hymenoptera ScientistPhone: +49 228 9122 290
E-mail: r.peters@leibniz-lib.de