NC STATE AGNIC SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY: A GUIDE TO ONLINE INSECT SYSTEMATIC RESOURCES

Akre, R. D., A. Greene, J. F. MacDonald, P. J. Landolt, and H. G. Davis. 1981.  The yellow jackets of America north of Mexico.  Agriculture Handbook 552:1-102.  U. S. Department of Agriculture. [with keys and figures; NCSU Libraries: Gov. Doc. A 1.76:552]

Ayala, R., T. L. Griswold, and S. H. Bullock.  1993.  The native bees of Mexico.  pp. 179-227.  In Ramamoorthy, T. P., R. Bye, A. Lot, and J. Fa (eds.). Biological Diversity of Mexico: Origins and Distribution.  Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford.  xxxix + 812 pp.  [lists bee groups in Mexico with distributions; NCSU Libraries: QH107.B55]

Betts, C. and  D. D. Laffoley (eds.).  1986.  The Hymenopterist's handbook.  2nd edition.  Amateur Entomologist 7:i-xii, 1-208.  [NCSU Libraries: QL563.H965]

Bingham, C. T., and C. Morley.  1897, 1903, and 1913.  Hymenoptera, Fauna of British India.  3 vols.  Taylor & Francis, London.  xxix + 579 pp. (vol. 1), xix + 506 pp. (vol. 2), xxxvi + 530 pp. (vol. 3).  [keys to species and genera, illustrations; NCSU Libraries: QL563.B55]

Bohort, R. M., and A. S. Menke.  1976.  Sphecid Wasps of the World.  A Generic Revision.  University of California Press, Berkeley.  ix + 695 pp.  [keys to sub-families, tribes, and genera; NCSU Libraries: QL568.S7 B63]

Bolton, B.  1994.  Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World.  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  [iv] + 222 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL568.F7 B58]

Bolton, B.  1995.  A  New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World.  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  504 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL568.F7 B585]

Boucek, Z.  1988.  Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera).  A Biosystematic Revision of Genera of Fourteen Families, with a Reclassification of Species.  CAB International, Wallingford, UK.  832 pp.  [key to genera; NCSU Libraries: QL566.B68]

Brown, W. L., Jr.  1982.  Hymenoptera.  pp. 652-680. In Parker, S. P. (ed.).  Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms, Vol. 2.  McGraw Hill, New York.  vi + 1232 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QH83.S89]

Cardale, J. C.  1993.  Hymenoptera: Apoidea.  Zoological Catalogue of Australia 10:1-406.  [NCSU Libraries: QL338.Z66]

Cooper, B. A. (ed.).  1945.  Hymenopterist's handbook.  The Amateur Entomologist 7(40):1-160. [reprinted 1969, Department of Agriculture, The University, Leeds, England, revised by Betts and Laffoley, 1986; NCSU Libraries: QL563.H965 1986]

Costa Lima, A.  1980.  Hymenópteros. I. a parte. Insetos do Brasil 11:7-368.  Escola Nacional de Agronomia, Rió de Janeiro [key to families]

De Dalla Torre, C. G.  1850-1928.  Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vols. 1-10.  G. Engelmann, Lipsiae.  [NCSU Libraries: QL566.D3]

de Santis, L.  1989.  Catalogo de los Himenopteros Calcidoideas (Hymenoptera) al sur de los Estados Unidos.  Acta Entomologia Chileana 15 (supplement 2):9-90.  [in Spanish]

Dollfuss, H.  1993.  Aculeate Hymenoptera collected 1985 in the Republic of Central Africa 2 (Mutillidae, Sphecidae, Apoides).  Linzer Biologische Beiträge 25(2):691-694. 

Evans, H. E., and J. W. Eberhard.  1970.  The Wasps.  University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.  vi + 265 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL568.V5 E8]

Evans, H. E., D. A. Smith, W. W. Middlekauff, T. Finlayson, and R. J. McGinley.  1987.  Order Hymenoptera.  pp. 597-710.  In Stehr, F. W. (ed.).  Immature Insects.  Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa.  [keys to families, subfamilies, tribes, and genera; NCSU Libraries: QL468.I44 1987]

Gauld, I., and B. Bolton (eds.).  1988.  The Hymenoptera.  British Museum of Natural History, London, and Oxford University Press, Oxford.  xi + 332 pp.  [natural history, biology, evolution, and systematics, key to superfamilies occurring in Britain only, general keys to families; NCSU Libraries: QL563.H96]

Gibson, G. A. P., J. T. Huber, and J. B. Woolley (eds.).  1997.  Annotated Keys to the Genera of Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera).  NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  794 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL568.C4 A56 1997]

Göllner-Scheiding, U.  1969.  Bibliographie der Bestimmungstabellen europäischer Insekten (1880-1963).  Teil II : Hymenoptera.  Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin  45(1):1-156.  [NCSU Libraries: QL1.B38]

Goulet, H., and J. T. Huber.  1993.  Hymenoptera of the world: an identification guide to families.  Agriculture Canada Publication (Ottawa) 1894-E:i-vii, 1-668.  [NCSU Libraries: QL566.H95 1993]

Grissell, E. E., and M. E. Schauff.  1990.  A handbook of the families of Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera).  Entomological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) Handbook 1:1-85. 

Handlirsch, A.  1925.  Überordnung und Ordnung : Hymenoptera L. (Hautflügler).  pp. 712-825 In Schröder, C. (ed.). Handbuch der Entomologie.  Band III.  Gustav Fischer, Jena, Germany.  1201 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL463.S38]

Hanson, P. E., and I. D. Gauld (eds.).  1995.  The Hymenoptera of Costa Rica.  Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York and Tokyo.  ixx + 893 pp.  [keys to superfamilies and genera; NCSU Libraries: QL567.2.C8 H96 1995]  

Hölldobler, B., and E. O. Wilson.  1990.  The Ants.  Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  [xiii] + 732 pp.  [keys to subfamilies; NCSU Libraries: Special Collections folio QL568.F7 H57 1990 and folio QL568.F7 H57 1990]

Hymenopterorum Catalogus (nova editio).  1965-1990..  Vols. 1-18.  W. Junk, The Hague, and SPB Academic Publishing, The Hague, Netherlands.  [NCSU Libraries : QL566.F43, v.1-18]

Kim, M. R., and C. W. Kim.  1994.  Keys for Korean bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Bombidae).  Entomological Research Bulletin 20:69-77. [NCSU Libraries: QL461.E68]

Kimsey, L. S., and R. M. Bohart.  1990.  The Chrysidid Wasps of the World.  Oxford University Press, New York.  ix + 652 pp.  [key to genera; NCSU Libraries: QL568.C47 K56]

Kirby, W. F.  1881.  List of Hymenoptera of New Zealand.  Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 29:35-50.  [NCSU Libraries: QL461.R6]

Krombein, K. V., P. D. Hurd, Jr., D. R. Smith, and B.D. Burks (eds.).  1979.  Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Vol. 1. Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica), pp. i-xvi, 1-1198. Vol. 2. Apocrita (Aculeata), pp. i-xvi, 1199-2210. Vol. 3. Indexes, pp. i-xxx, 2211-2735.  Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.  [NCSU Libraries: Gov. Doc. SI 1.2:H99/2]

LaSalle, J., and I. D. Gauld.  1993.  Hymenoptera and Biodiversity.  CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, United Kingdom.  348 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL563.H963 1993]

Leclercq, J.  1982.  Hymenoptères craboriens de Chine et de regions voisines de l'Himalaya.  Entomotaxonomia 4(3):145-157.  [in French, Chinese summary; NCSU Libraries: QL468.K86]

Liu, Z., and G. Nordlander.  1994.  Review of the family Ibaliidae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea) with keys to genera and species of the world.  Entomologica Scandinavica 25(4): 377-392.  [NCSU Libraries: QL461.E52]

Lok, C. K., P. Gopalkrishnakone, K. Hun, K V. Ratnam, and N. S. Kiat.  1990.  Bees, wasps, and hornets.  pp. 36-51.  In Gopalkrishnakone, P. (ed.).  A Color Guide to Dangerous Animals.  Singapore University Press, Singapore. vi + 156 pp.  

Masner, L.  1990.  Status report on taxonomy of Hymenoptera in North America.  pp. 231-240.  In Kosztarab, M., and C. W. Schaefer (eds.).  Systematics of the North American Insects and Arachnids: Status and Needs.  (Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station Information Series 90-1.)  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.  xii + 247 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: S541.5.V5 I53]

Mason, W. R. M.  1993.  Key to the superfamilies of Hymenoptera.  pp.65-100.  In Goulet, H., and J. T. Huber.  Hymenoptera of the world: an identification guide to families.  Agriculture Canada Publication (Ottawa) 1894-E:i-vii, 1-668.  [NCSU Libraries: QL566.H95 1993]

McGinley, R. J.  1989.  A catalog  and review of immature Apoidea (Hymenoptera).  Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 494:1-24. [NCSU Libraries: Gov. Doc. SI 1.27:494]

Meier, N. F.  1968.  Keys to the Parasitic Hymenoptera (Family Ichneumonidae) of the USSR and Adjacent Countries. (Keys to the fauna of the USSR, Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR). Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem.  iv + 1-438 pp.  [translated from Russian; NCSU Libraries: QL568.12.M43, v.1] 

Michener, C. D.  1965.  A classification of the bees of the Australian and South Pacific regions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 130:1-362.  [NCSU Libraries: QH1.A49, n.130]

Michner, C. D., R. J. McGinley, and B. N. Danforth.  1994.  The Bee Genera of North and Central America (Hymenoptera: Apoidea).  Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C.  viii + 209 pp. [keys to genera and families; NCSU Libraries: QL567.1.A1 M53 1994]

Mitchell, T. B.  1960-1962.  Bees of the Eastern United States.  North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin, Raleigh, NC.  141:[1]-538 (vol.1: 1960); 152:[1]-557 (vol.2: 1962).  [keys to genera; NCSU Libraries: QL568.A6 M578 1960]

Morley, C.  1897.  The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma: Hymenoptera (Ichneumonidae). Taylor and Francis, London. Vol. 3. xxxi + 531 pp.  [keys to tribes, families, genera and species, color plates; NCSU Libraries: QL563.B55] 

Narendran, T. C.  1989.  Oriental Chalcididae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). University of Calicut, Kerala, India.  440 pp. 

Naumann, I. D., C. van Achterberg, T. F. Houston, C. D. Michener, and R. W. Taylor.  1991.  Hymenoptera.  pp. 916-1000. In CSIRO (ed.).  The Insects of Australia.  A Textbook for Students and Research Workers.  2nd edition.  Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Australia.  2 volumes.  xvii + 1137 + vi pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL487.I5 1991]

Noyes, J. S., and E. W. Valentine.  1989.  Chalcidoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Introduction and review of genera in smaller families.  Fauna of New Zealand 18:5-91.  [NCSU Libraries: QL568.C4 N69 1989]

Olmi, M.  1994.  The Dryinidae and Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of Fennoscandia and Denmark.  (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica series, vol. 30).  E. J. Brill, New York.  100 pp.  [catalogue and keys; NCSU Libraries: QL568.D7 O46 1994]

Peck, O.  1963.  A catalogue of the Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera).  The Canadian Entomologist.  Supplement 30:1-1092.  [NCSU Libraries: QL461.C3]

Peterson, A.  1948.  Larvae of Insects. Part I. Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera.  Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor, Michigan.  315 pp.  [keys and illustrations; NCSU Libraries: QL494.P4] 

Prinsloo, G. L., C. D. Eardley, D. J. Brothers, and A. J. Prins.  1985.  Hymenoptera, pp. 393-451.  In Scholtz, C. H., and E. Holm.  Insects of Southern Africa.  Butterworth Publishing, Stoneham, Maine.  502 pp.  [keys to suborders and families; NCSU Libraries: QL485.A356 S36]  

Quicke, D. L. J.  1997.  Parasitic Wasps.  Chapman & Hall, London.  470 pp.  [biology, behavior, ecology, anatomy, physiology, phylogeny; NCSU Libraries: QL568.C4 Q53 1997]

Riek, E. F., C. D. Michener, W. L. Brown, and R. W. Taylor.  1970.  Hymenoptera (wasps, bees, ants).  pp. 867-959.  In Mackerras, I. M. (ed.).  The Insects of Australia.  A Textbook for Students and Research Workers.  [1st edition].  Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria.  xiv-1029.  [keys to superfamilies, families and subfamilies; NCSU Libraries: QL487.I5]

Ries, D. T.  1937.  A revision of the Nearctic Cephidae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinoidea).  Transactions of the American Entomological Society 63:259-324. [NCSU Libraries: QL461.A5]

Rojas-Fernandez, P., and C. Fragoso.  1994.  The ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Mapimi Biosphere Reserve, Durango, Mexico.  Sociobiology 24(1):47-75.  [keys to species; NCSU Libraries: QH301.S762]  

Roubik, D. W.  1992.  Ecology and Natural History of Tropical Bees.  Cambridge University Press, London, Mass.  x + 514 pp.  [NCSU Libraries: QL567.96.R68]

Schaeffer, M.  1988.  Hymenoptera, Hautflugler. pp. 304-325.  In Brohmer, P. Fauna von Deutschland.  17th edition.  Quelle and Meyer, Heidelberg.  [in German]

Schauff, M. E.  1984.  The Holarctic genera of Mymaridae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea).  Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 12:1-67. [key to genera; NCSU Libraries: QL461.E58 no.12] 

Schmiedeknecht, O.  1930.  Die Hymenopteren Nord und Mitteleuropas: mit Einschluss von England, Sudschweiz, Sudtirol und Ungarn, nach ihren Guttungen und zum grossn Teil auch nachihren Arten analytisch bearbeitet.  G. Fischer, Jena, Germany.  1062 pp.  [in German; NCSU Libraries: QL567.4.S28 1930]

Smith, D. R.  1979.  Nearctic sawflies IV. Allantinae: adults and larvae (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae).  United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1595:1-196. [keys to genera and species; NCSU Libraries: Gov. Doc. A1.36:1595]

Smith, D. R.  1988.  A synopsis of the sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of America south of the United States: Introduction, Xyelidae, Pamphilidae, Cimbicidae, Diprionidae, Xiphydriidae, Siricidae, Orussidae, Cephidae.  Systematic Entomology 13:205-261.  [key to species; NCSU: QL461.S94]

Taylor, R. W., D. R. Brown, and J. C. Cardale.  1985.  Hymenoptera: Formicoidea, Vespoidea, and Sphecoidea.  Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-381. [NCSU Libraries: QL338.Z66 1983]

Togashi, I.  1989.  On the symphyte wasps (Hymenoptera) of Fukui Prefecture, central Japan. Part 1.  Key to the families.  Entomological Journal of Fukui 4:5-9. [in Japanese, English summary]

Townes, H. K.  1969-1971.  The genera of Ichneumonidae.  Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 11 (Part 1, 1969): 1-300; 12 (Part 2, 1970a): 1-537; 13 (Part 3, 1970b): 1-307; 17 (Part 4, 1971): 1-372.  [NCSU Libraries: QL468.T650]

Townes, H., S. Momoi, and M. Townes.  1965.  A catalogue and reclassification of the eastern Palearctic Ichneumonidae.  Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 5:1-661.  [NCSU Libraries: QL568.I2 T57]

Townes, H., and M. Townes.  1973.  A catalogue and reclassification of Ethiopian Ichneumonidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 19:i-iv, 1-416.  [keys to subfamilies and genera; NCSU Libraries: QL568.12.T580]

van Achtenberg, C.  1993.  Illustrated key to the subfamilies of the Holarctic Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea).  Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 283:1-189.  

Wheeler, G. C., and J. Wheeler.  1990.  Insecta: Hymenoptera Formicidae.  pp. 1277-1294.  In Dindal, D. (ed.).  Soil Biology Guide.  John Wiley & Sons, New York.  xviii + 1349 pp.  [keys to genus for adaphic taxa of the Nearctic region; NCSU Libraries Reference Collection: QH84.8.S632]

Whitfield, J. B.  1998.  Phylogeny and evolution of host-parasitoid interactions in Hymenoptera.  Annual Review of Entomology 43:129-151.  [NCSU Libraries: SB599.A7]

Wilson, E. O.  1971.  The Insect Societies.  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.  x + 548 pp.  [behavior and population dynamics of the social insects: wasps, ants, bees, and termites; NCSU Libraries: QL496.W66]

Xiao, G. R., S. Z. Zhou, and X. Y. Huang.  1987.  Hymenoptera: Symphyta. Agricultural Insects, Spiders, Plant Disease and Weeds of Xizang [Xizang Nongye Bingchong Ji Zacao] 1:307-314. [in Chinese, English summary]

Yoshimoto, C. M.  1990.  A Review of the Genera of New World Mymaridae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea).  Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, Florida.  ix + 166 pp.  [NCSU Libraries : QL568.M94 Y67 1990]

Zhang, J.  1989.  A checklist of the superfamily Vespoidea [as "Vespoidwa"] in Fujian Province, China.  Journal of Fujian Agricultural College 18(4):571-578.  [in Chinese]

Zhelokhovtsev, A. N., V. I. Tobias, and M. A. Kozlov.  1993.  Keys to the insects of the  European part of the USSR.  Vol. 3, Part 6. Hymenoptera.  Keys to the Fauna of the USSR 158:1-432.  [English translation from Russian; NCSU Libraries: QL482.S64 O6713]

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