TY - JOUR
T1 - The alien Black-and-yellow Mud Dauber, Sceliphron caementarium (Drury, 1773) (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae), continues its spread
T2 - new citizen-science records from Eastern Europe and the Balkans
AU - Demetriou, Jakovos
AU - Díaz-Calafat, Joan
AU - Kalaentzis, Konstantinos
AU - Kazilas, Christos
AU - Georgiadis, Christos
AU - Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio
AU - Koutsoukos, Evangelos
N1 - Funding Information:
We kindly thank all citizen scientists and researchers for the data and photographs of their observations. Namely, we are grateful to Aleksander Golemaj and Arjan Ndoni (Albania), Nikolaos Papageorgiou and Dr. Marion Friedrich (Greece), Evgeniy Meyke and Oleksandr Malikin (Montenegro), and Slobodan Stevčić (Serbia), as well as Peter Hoffmann and Martin Beděra (Slovakia) for their critical contribution to this manuscript. We are also thankful to Judy Gallagher for providing photographic material. We are highly grateful to Dr. Wojciech J. Pulawski (California Academy of Sciences) for the provision of literature on S. caementarium. Finally, we would like to thank our reviewers Dr. Petr Bogusch, Dr. Michael Ohl, and the academic editor, Dr. Filippo Di Giovanni, for their suggestions, improvements, and comments on the manuscript. This article is based upon work from COST Action CA17122 – Alien CSI, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), http://www.cost.eu.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The Nearctic Sceliphron caementarium (Drury, 1773) is widely distributed in the Western Palearctic and is spreading to new territories. Despite the large quantities of data on citizen-science platforms, these records have been mostly overlooked. In this publication, the first records of S. caementarium from six Eastern European and Balkan countries (Albania, Greece, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, and Slovakia) are presented. Data derived from online citizen-science observations and museum specimens supplement our knowledge of this species’ range. The distribution of this species in Europe and possible ecological implications are discussed.
AB - The Nearctic Sceliphron caementarium (Drury, 1773) is widely distributed in the Western Palearctic and is spreading to new territories. Despite the large quantities of data on citizen-science platforms, these records have been mostly overlooked. In this publication, the first records of S. caementarium from six Eastern European and Balkan countries (Albania, Greece, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, and Slovakia) are presented. Data derived from online citizen-science observations and museum specimens supplement our knowledge of this species’ range. The distribution of this species in Europe and possible ecological implications are discussed.
KW - Alien species
KW - biological invasions
KW - citizen science
KW - first record
KW - mud daubers
KW - Western Palearctic
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U2 - 10.15560/18.3.535
DO - 10.15560/18.3.535
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85131809189
SN - 1809-127X
VL - 18
SP - 535
EP - 543
JO - Check List
JF - Check List
IS - 3
ER -