Original Paper

Extraordinary bees of the genus Lasioglossum Curtis, 1833 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) from China

  • Chaodong Zhu ,
  • Zeqing Niu ,
  • Dan Zhang
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China; E-mail: niuzq@ioz.ac.cn 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10049, P. R. China, E-mail: zhangdan2016@ioz.ac.cn 3State Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China 4College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China

Online published: 2020-01-24

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31660630, 31961143002) and the First-class disciplines of Prataculture Science from Ningxia University (NXYLXK2017A01).

Abstract

The first records of the extraordinary and amazing bees Lasioglossum longirostre (Morawitz, 1876) and a new species L. submandibulare Niu, sp. nov., from China are reported in this paper, with their descriptions, illustrations, and floral association. The species of Lasioglossum from China is up to 170.

Cite this article

Chaodong Zhu , Zeqing Niu , Dan Zhang . Extraordinary bees of the genus Lasioglossum Curtis, 1833 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) from China[J]. Zoological Systematics, 2020 , 45(1) : 50 -58 . DOI: 10.11865/zs.202005

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