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2016 , Vol. 41 >Issue 3: 286 - 293

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11865/zs.201630

Discovery of the male of Colletes yanruae from Yunnan, China (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae)

  • Zeqing Niu ,
  • Zongxin Ren ,
  • Chaodong Zhu
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; E-mail: niuzq@ioz.ac.cn, zhucd@ioz.ac.cn 2Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China; E-mail: renzongxin@mail.kib.ac.cn

Online published: 2016-07-24

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This work was supported mainly by the National Specific Research Funds for Public Benefit Department (Agriculture) (201303108) to Zeqing Niu, the NSFC Program J1211002, and the grant (Y229YX5105) from Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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Abstract

Several wild pollinator bees were found visiting local plants and collected in early spring in dry and eroding lands in Yunnan, China. With both morphology and DNA information, we discovered the hitherto unknown male of Colletes yanruae Niu, Zhu & Kuhlmann, 2013. Herein, the male was described and illustrated for the first time.

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Zeqing Niu , Zongxin Ren , Chaodong Zhu . Discovery of the male of Colletes yanruae from Yunnan, China (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae)[J]. Zoological Systematics, 2016 , 41(3) : 286 -293 . DOI: 10.11865/zs.201630

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