Fossil Carder Bee's Nest from the Hominin Locality of Taung, South Africa. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The Buxton-Norlim Limeworks southwest of Taung, South Africa, is renowned for the discovery of the first Australopithecus africanus fossil, the 'Taung Child'.
Jennifer F Parker +2 more
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Catálogo de los Megachilidae del Mediterráneo occidental (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). III. Anthidiini y Dioxyini [PDF]
Graellsia, 2008 El catálogo objeto de este trabajo es la tercera y última entrega de una serie de tres que los autores han realizado sobre la familia Megachilidae en el territorio comprendido corológicamente en el área mediterránea occidental, como base de la revisión ...
C. Ornosa +2 more
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The bee genus Anthidiellum in Vietnam: descriptions of five new species and the first male of Anthidiellum coronum (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 The Vietnamese fauna of bees in the Anthidiellum Cockerell (Megachilinae, Anthidiini) is reviewed. Seven species are recognized, representing two subgenera.
Ngat Thi Tran +4 more
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New records of megachilid bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) for Colombia [PDF]
Revista Peruana de Biología, 2022 The bee family Megachilidae consists of solitary species, some of which are important pollinators of cultivated plants. Although literature records indicate the existence of about 50 species of 10 genera of megachilid bees in Colombia, taxonomic studies ...
Diego A. Guevara +2 more
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A review of the anthidiine bees (Apoidea, Megachilidae) in Thailand [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 Bees of the tribe Anthidiini (Apoidea: Megachilidae) are notable pollinators consisting of resin bees, wool-carder bees, and cleptoparasitic bees. Twelve anthidiine species were historically reported in Thailand, though the taxonomic information of the ...
Pakorn Nalinrachatakan +5 more
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Comparative Mitogenomic Analysis of Two Cuckoo Bees (Apoidea: Anthophila: Megachilidae) with Phylogenetic Implications [PDF]
Insects, 2021 Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea and Anthophila) are distributed worldwide and considered the primary pollinators of angiosperm. Megachilidae is one of the largest families of Anthophila.
Huanhuan Lu +5 more
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Pollinator-mediated plant coexistence requires high levels of pollinator specialization. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2023 A key question for understanding plant‐pollinator interactions is whether realistic pollinator foraging behavior promotes coexistence or exclusion of plant species. We use a simulation model to understand how pollinator foraging behavior impacts the coexistence dynamics of pollen‐limited plants.
Bruninga-Socolar B +3 more
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The resin bee subgenus Ranthidiellum in Thailand (Megachilidae, Anthidiini): nesting biology, cleptoparasitism by Stelis, and new species [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2021 Resin bees of the subgenus Ranthidiellum, are rare and endemic to Southeast Asia. These bees are known to construct resinous entrance tubes to their nests. Here, the new species Anthidiellum (R.) phuchongensis sp. nov.
Pakorn Nalinrachatakan +5 more
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Bionomy and Nesting Behavior of the Bee Epanthidium tigrinum (Schrottky, 1905) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in Trap-Nests [PDF]
Sociobiology, 2020 About 85% of pollinating bees are solitary, but few are used for agricultural pollination. The Anthidiini tribe looks very promising in Brazil, in the light of ecosystem utility, but it is still a species with poorly scientific research[EdM1] .
Angela Maria S. Gomes +4 more
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A new small carder bee species from the eastern Canary Islands (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae, Anthidiini) [PDF]
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2023 Recent field surveys in the eastern Canary Islands (Spain), followed by contributions of new occurrence records through the citizen science platform iNaturalist.com and the social media photo repository Flickr.com have revealed the presence of an ...
Nicolas J Vereecken +2 more
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