Polistes dominula (CHRIST 1791)

Dvořák, L. & Ramel, G., 2009, Social wasps of Wetland Kerkini, northern Greece (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Vespinae, Polistinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 41 (2), pp. 1937-1948 : 1945

Polistes dominula (CHRIST 1791)

L o c a l i t i e s: AnoParoia , LargePlateau ,yellowpantrapsatbeech forest, 8.8.- 13.8.2007, 13. Ano Paroia, Camp 1777, yellow pan traps, 15.7.- 27.7.2007, 1 º. Himmaros, 16.8.2005, 1♀. Kerkini, Krousia Mts., 8.1.2005, 1♀ ; 27.6.- 3.7.2007, 1 º. Lithotopos, Ecotourism, yellow pan traps, 19.6.2008, 1♀; 25.- 31.7.2006, 1♀; 1.- 7.8.2006, 2 ºº; 15.- 21.8.2006, 1 º; 22.- 28.8.2006, 1 º. Lithotopos, Kerkini Lake , 9.5.- 15.5.2005, 2♀♀, 1 º ; 13.6.- 19.6.2005, 1♀; 20.- 26.6.2005, 1 º. Megalohori, Megalohori, 18.- 22.6.2008, 2 ºº, yellow pan trap. Neo Petritsi, Kerkini Mts. , yellow pan traps, 14.6.2009, 13. Neo Petritsi, Midway, 28.7.- 3.8.2008, 1 º. Neo Petritsi, Roupel's Gorge, yellow pan traps, 7.6.2009, 1 º. Neo Petritsi, Stentori, Kerkini Mts., yellow pan traps, 14.6.2009, 2♀♀. Neo Petritsi, Strymon F, Plain, yellow pan traps, 21.5.2009, 1♀. Neo Petritsi, Sultanitsa, 14.- 21.7.2008, 1♀ ; 28.7.- 3.8.2008, 2♀♀. Promohonas , Procom, 20.6.2008, 1 º, yellow pan trap .

Recorded from a wide range of stands (14 sites): open sites, forests, bog, subalpine ve-

getation, and from 38 to 1600 m a.s.l. Palaearctic species inhabiting almost the whole of

Europe, northern Africa, and a large part of Asia. Introduced to Australia, Patagonia, and

North America. A very common species everywhere in Greece.