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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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 ...
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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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Male or Female? New Cases of Gynandromorphism in Wool Carder Bees of the Tribe Anthidiini (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) [PDF]
SociobiologyGynandromorphism is a condition in which both male and female morphological characteristics are present in a single specimen. This phenomenon has been well-documented in Apoidea, but with only a few cases in megachilid bees.
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A cytochrome P450 insecticide detoxification mechanism is not conserved across the Megachilidae family of bees [PDF]
Evolutionary Applications, Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2024.Abstract Recent work has demonstrated that many bee species have specific cytochrome P450 enzymes (P450s) that can efficiently detoxify certain insecticides. The presence of these P450s, belonging or closely related to the CYP9Q subfamily (CYP9Q‐related), is generally well conserved across the diversity of bees.
Angela Hayward +10 more
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Cryptic and Non-Cryptic Diversity in Cleptoparasitic Bees of the Genus Stelis Panzer, 1806, Subgenus Stelidomorpha Morawitz, 1875, with a Description of New Species from the Arabian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae) [PDF]
InsectsCleptoparasitic bees of the subgenus Stelis (Stelidomorpha) occur mainly in the Mediterranean and Middle East. In this study, we elevate Stelis aegyptiaca ssp. canaria Warncke, 1992 to species rank (S. canaria Warncke, 1992) and describe two new species,
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Taxonomic revision proves Trachusa pubescens (Morawitz, 1872) sensu lato to be a complex of allopatric and sympatric species in South-Eastern Europe and Western Asia (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Anthidiini) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2018 Trachusa pubescens (Morawitz, 1872) s. l. has a distribution extending from south-eastern Europe over Anatolia and the Caucasus to Iran and Turkmenistan, and was formerly regarded as a species with high intraspecific variation. By means of an examination
Max Kasparek
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The evolution of floral sonication, a pollen foraging behavior used by bees (Anthophila) [PDF]
Evolution, Volume 72, Issue 3, Page 590-600, March 2018., 2018 Abstract Over 22,000 species of biotically pollinated flowering plants, including some major agricultural crops, depend primarily on bees capable of floral sonication for pollination services. The ability to sonicate (“buzz”) flowers is widespread in bees but not ubiquitous.
Sophie Cardinal +2 more
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AnthWest, occurrence records for wool carder bees of the genus Anthidium (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae, Anthidiini) in the Western Hemisphere [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2014 This paper describes AnthWest, a large dataset that represents one of the outcomes of a comprehensive, broadly comparative study on the diversity, biology, biogeography, and evolution of Anthidium Fabricius in the Western Hemisphere.
Terry Griswold +2 more
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Functional resin use in solitary bees
Ecological Entomology, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 115-136, April 2022., 2022 Overall, more than 30% of bee species depend on non‐floral resources such as resin, which is used in nesting for nest structures, chemical camouflage, defence, moisture regulation, and its anti‐microbial properties. Resin usage appears to be constrained by environmental and physiological factors and may play a major role in determining the ambient nest
Shao Xiong Chui +2 more
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