Checklist of medically important Hymenoptera of Afghanistan

Authors

James C. Dunford, Centers for Disease Control and PreventionFollow
Joseph C. Turbyville, Ireland Army Community Hospital
John M. Leavengood Jr., University of Kentucky

Date of this Version

2014

Citation

Published in Insecta Mundi (2014) 0339: 1-13.

Comments

Published in 2014 by Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc. P. O. Box 141874 Gainesville, FL 32614-1874 USA http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/

Copyright held by the author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons, Attribution Non-Commercial License

Abstract

A recent investigation was conducted to assess the threat of insect venom hypersensitivity to deployed U.S. service members operating in the region. In parallel with this study, a checklist of medically important Hymenoptera was assembled from limited field collections as well as a comprehensive review of the literature and information provided by electronic databases. We compiled names of 14 families comprising 396 species of Hymenoptera capable of stinging humans. This is the first such checklist for Afghanistan, and should aid future taxonomic work and provide reference information for public health-related entomology in this region.