The northernmost record of the Asian hornet Vespa velutina nigrithorax (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

By

Husemann, Martin
Sterr, Andreas
Mack, Swen
Abraham, Rudolf

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-2-4

Original Publication

Evolutionary systematics

Volume

4

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

1--4

Subjects

Hamburg , Honeybees , Insect , Invasion biology , neozoa , pest organism , yellow legged hornet.

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Hamburg Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak) 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.4.47358

 

Abstract

For the first time the Asian hornet Vespa velutina has been found in Hamburg (Northern Germany). So far this is the northernmost occurrence of this originally SE-Asian species in Europe and in the world. It remains unclear whether this is a single accidentally translocated specimen or one of a population already reproducing. The find may suggest that the species will possibly spread much faster than previously anticipated and modelled.