Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
New records of the Paleotropical migrant Hemianax ephippiger in the Caribbean and a review of its status in the Neotropics
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre. University of Helsinki, Finland.
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology.
Show others and affiliations
Number of Authors: 52020 (English)In: International journal of odonatology, ISSN 1388-7890, Vol. 23, no 4, p. 315-325Article, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Tropical America is currently experiencing the establishment of a new apex insect predator, the Paleotropical dragonfly Hemianax ephippiger (Odonata: Aeshnidae). H. ephippiger is migratory and is suggested to have colonised the eastern Neotropics by chance Trans-Atlantic displacement. We report the discovery of H. ephippiger at three new locations in the Caribbean, the islands of Bonaire, Isla de Coche (Venezuela), and Martinique, and we review its reported distribution across the Neotropics. We discuss the establishment of H. ephippiger as a new apex insect predator in the Americas, both in terms of ecological implications and the possible provision of ecosystem services. We also provide an additional new species record for Bonaire, Pantala hymenaea (Odonata: Libellulidae).

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. Vol. 23, no 4, p. 315-325
Keywords [en]
Odonata, dragonfly, Bonaire, migration, colonisation, ecosystem services
National Category
Biological Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-184386DOI: 10.1080/13887890.2020.1787237ISI: 000552538200001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-184386DiVA, id: diva2:1472472
Available from: 2020-10-01 Created: 2020-10-01 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full text

Authority records

Ehrnsten, EvaLehmann, Philipp

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Ehrnsten, EvaLehmann, Philipp
By organisation
Stockholm University Baltic Sea CentreDepartment of Zoology
Biological Sciences

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 185 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf