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

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DOI:

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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2011-04-26