A Range Extension of the Social Wasp Polistes Bahamensis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

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https://doi.org/10.15362/ijbs.v17i2.136

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Wasps

Abstract

Short report on the discovery of the social wasp polistes Bahamensis located on Great Inagua.

Author Biographies

Christopher K. Starr, Dep't of Life Sciences University of the West Indies St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago

Dep't of Life Sciences Senior Lecturer in Entomology

Jo-Anne Sewlal, Dep't of Life Sciences, Univ. of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago;

Ph.d. student

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Elliott, N. B., & Elliott, W. M. (1996). Biogeography of Bahamian wasps. In N. B. Elliott, D. C. Edwards, & P. J. Godfrey, Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on the Natural History of the Bahamas, (pp. 101-108). Bahamian Field Station.

Hamaher, J. I. (1936). A summer tanager (Piranga rubra) eating wasps. Auk, 55, 220-221. http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v053n02/p0220-p0221.pdf

Richards, O. W. (1978). The social wasps of the Americas, excluding the Vespinae. British Museum.

Snelling, R. R. (1983). Taxonomic and nomenclatural studies on American polistine wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 59, 267-280. http://antbase.org/ants/publications/5220/5220.pdf

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Published

2011-04-26

How to Cite

Starr, C. K., & Sewlal, J.-A. (2011). A Range Extension of the Social Wasp Polistes Bahamensis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). International Journal of Bahamian Studies, 17(2), 1–2. https://doi.org/10.15362/ijbs.v17i2.136

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2011): International Journal of Bahamian Studies

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Short Communications

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