TY  - SER
AU  - Picón-Rentería,Patricio
AU  - Sarmiento,Carlos E.
AU  - Avendaño,José M.
AU  - Rodríguez,Jacqueline
AU  - Abdo,Paula
AU  - Herrera,Henri W.
TI  - New distribution records for cryptogenic and invasive Vespidae (Hymenoptera) in the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador
U1  - 595.798 23
PY  - 2024///
KW  - Invasive species
KW  - Especies invasoras
KW  - Islands
KW  - islas
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Colonización
KW  - Epiponini
KW  - Polistini
KW  - Pachodynerus
N2  - In the Galapagos Islands, invasive wasps negatively affect the local fauna through competition with native predators. These wasps also pose a risk to humans because of their stings. Thus, it is important to constantly survey these insects. Currently there are three species of vespids known from the Galapagos: two social species are invasive, while a solitary species is cryptogenic. After structured sampling using malaise traps,
hand nets, and pan traps on most of the islands of the archipelago, and a review of related collections, the distribution of Brachygastra lecheguana is expanded to Genovesa Island; precise localities and vegetation zones are recorded for Polistes
versicolor; and updated information on the distribution of the cryptogenic solitary vespid Pachodynerus gaullei is provided
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2024.13.2.06
ER  -