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2025 , Vol. 50 >Issue 4: 324 - 347

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11865/zs.2025406

Original Article

Review of the bee subgenus Anthophora (Anthomegilla) Marikovskaya, 1976 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apidae) from China

  • Zeqing Niu ,
  • Feng Yuan ,
  • Arong Luo ,
  • Qingsong Zhou ,
  • Michael C. Orr ,
  • Yulia V. Astafurova ,
  • Pierre Rasmont ,
  • Chaodong Zhu
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Animal Biodiversity Conservation and Integrated Pest Management, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China; E-mails: niuzq@ioz.ac.cn (ZQN), yuanfeng@ioz.ac.cn (FY), luoar@ioz.ac.cn (ARL), zhouqingsong @ioz.ac.cn (QSZ) 

    2Entomologie, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; E-mail: michael.christopher.orr@gmail.com 

    3Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia; E-mail: Yulia.Astafourova@zin.ru 

    4Laboratory of Zoology, Research Institute of Biosciences, University of Mons, Place du parc 20, 7000, Mons, Belgium; E-mail: pierre. rasmont@umnos.ac.be 

    5College of Life Sciences/International College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China

Chaodong Zhu

Online published: 2025-10-24

Supported by

This work was supported largely by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32270465), the second Xizangan Plateau scientific expedition research (STEP) program (2019QZKK05010605) to Zeqing Niu, and the Survey of Wildlife Resources in Key Areas of Xizang (ZL202203601). Arong Luo is supported by the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars (32122016) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32070465). Chaodong Zhu’s lab is mainly supported by grants from State Key Laboratory of Animal Biodiversity Conservation and Integrated Pest Management (SKLA2501).

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Abstract

Chinese bees of the subgenus Anthophora (Anthomegilla) Marikovskaya, 1976 are reviewed. Eleven species are confirmed to occur in China, two of which are described and illustrated as new species: A. (Anthomegilla) nailungensis Niu, sp. nov. and A. (A.) gyiruensis Niu, sp. nov. The female of A. (A.) beijingensis (Wu, 1986) and the male of A. (A.) flavonigra (Wu, 1988) are described for the first time. Diagnoses, updated synonymies, materials examined, global distributional data and floral associations of each species are provided along with illustrations and a key to known species in China.

Key words： Anthophorinae, Anthophila, fauna, new species, taxonomy

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Zeqing Niu , Feng Yuan , Arong Luo , Qingsong Zhou , Michael C. Orr , Yulia V. Astafurova , Pierre Rasmont , Chaodong Zhu . Review of the bee subgenus Anthophora (Anthomegilla) Marikovskaya, 1976 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apidae) from China[J]. Zoological Systematics, 2025 , 50(4) : 324 -347 . DOI: 10.11865/zs.2025406

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