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2016 , Vol. 41 >Issue 2: 207 - 215

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11865/zs.201619

Thrinchostoma Saussure, little known bee genus from China, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

  • Zeqing Niu ,
  • Feng Yuan ,
  • Pia Oremek ,
  • Feng Liu ,
  • Chaodong Zhu
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
    2Agroecology in the Tropics and Subtropics (380b), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart 70593, Germany
    3Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Jinghong, Xishuangbanna 666100, China
    *Corresponding author, E-mail: zhucd@ioz.ac.cn

Online published: 2016-04-24

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This work was supported mainly by grants from the National Specific Research Funds for Public Benefit Department (Agriculture) (201303108) to Zeqing Niu, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31201701, J1211002) to Chaodong Zhu’s lab, and the grant (Y229YX5105) from Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Pia Oremek has been supported by the German-Chinese SURUMER project (Sustainable Rubber Cultivation in the Mekong Region, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Project Number 01LL0919) to carry out field studies in NWNR.

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Abstract

The bee genus Thrinchostoma Saussure, 1890 is reported from China with a new species and a new record species, T. (Thrinchostoma) yunnanense Niu & Zhu, sp. nov. and T (T.) sladeni Cockerell, 1913. An illustrated key to the two Chinese species of the subgenus Thrinchostoma (T.) is provided. The type specimens are deposited in Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

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Zeqing Niu , Feng Yuan , Pia Oremek , Feng Liu , Chaodong Zhu . Thrinchostoma Saussure, little known bee genus from China, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)[J]. Zoological Systematics, 2016 , 41(2) : 207 -215 . DOI: 10.11865/zs.201619

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