Workshop presentation given by Juho Paukkunen at the BWARS Members' Weekend 2019. The presentation outlines key characters for separating the 13 British species of the cryptic Chrysis ignita group. Juho cautioned that colour characters given in the Nordic and Baltic Chrysididae key (Paukkunen et al., 2015) are not reliable for British specimens:

Juho Paukkunen, Alexander Berg, Villu Soon, Frode Ødegaard and Paolo Rosa. 2015 An illustrated key to the cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of the Nordic and Baltic countries, with description of a new species.… Read more

The 2019 AGM draft programme can be downloaded here

2019 BWARS AGM final programme

This is a corrected version of the key to Vespidae wasps, issued in the BWARS Newsletter (Spring 2019 issue).

The correction relates to one character which had been transposed in the male Dolichovespula part of the key.

Download the key here

Key to Wasps of the family Vespidae - corrected version 4
Issued 26 September 2019

This is a corrected version of the key to Vespidae wasps, issued in the BWARS Newsletter (Spring 2019 issue).

The correction relates to one character which had been transposed in the male Dolichovespula part of the key.

Male Vespula are now excluded from the key as it has become apparent that more work is required regarding separating the species rleiably.

Details of the BWARS AGM and Members' Weekend 2019 can be found in the diary

The 2019 BWARS AGM and Members' Weekend will be held at the Field Studies Council Preston Montford centre near Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

The final programme can be downloaded here

You can now download a list of all British aculeates and all of BWARS' data at 10km resolution. Access both files via the "Bees, Wasps & Ants" menu at top left above.

Using and Referencing BWARS Data

You are free to use the BWARS taxonomic and public data for any purpose provided that you acknowledge BWARS as the source of this data. Full access to the data is provided on a case-by-case basis, under a project-specific license. Acceptable cases for full data access are outlined in the BWARS Data Agreement, as follows:

• To further the study and/or conservation of aculeates
• Other educational research purposes (such as university studies)
   

BWARS public data

A list of all the present known species concepts - March 2020.