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Mattias Forshage1, Jeremy Bowdrey2, Gavin R Broad3
1Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.
Biodiversity Data Journal
|March 23, 2017
Abstract
Background:
The British and Irish checklist of Cynipoidea is revised, considerably updating the last complete checklist published in 1978. Disregarding uncertain identifications, 220 species are now known from Britain and Ireland, comprising 91 Cynipidae (including two established non-natives), 127 Figitidae and two Ibaliidae.
New Information:
One replacement name is proposed, , for the secondary homonym Kleidotoma tetratoma Thomson, 1861 (nec K. tetratoma (Hartig, 1841)).

