supported by the second Tibetan Plateau scientific expedition and research(STEP)program(2019QZKK05010605);the National Natural Science Foundation,China(31772487);funded by the National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Yong Scholars(31625024);the grant(Y229YX5105)from the Key Laboratoryof Zoological Systematics and Evolution,Chinese Academy of Sciences;supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(32070465);Rafael R.Ferrari was supported by the President's International Funding Initiative(2020PB0130);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41761144068).
The halictid genus Lasioglossum,as one of the most species-rich bee groups with persistently contentious subgeneric boundaries,is one of the most challenging bee groups from a systematic standpoint.An enduring questio...
Pollinators are important to wild and cultivated plants, and the same plants are important to pollinators as well. A very important source of pollen and nectar to pollinators are will...
supported mainly by the grant from the National Science Foundation,China(31772487)to Zeqing Niu;the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)program(2019QZKK0501);the National Science Fund for Distinguished Yong Scholars(31625024)to Chaodong Zhu;the grant(Y229YX5105)from Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution,Chinese Academy of Sciences。
The taxonomy of Chinese bees of the genus Icteranthidium Michener,1948 is revised here,including five species.Species information are modified in detail,such as incorrect publication date,misspelling,misidentification...
financially supported mainly by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31772487)to Zeqing Niu;the grant(Y229YX5105)from Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution,Chinese Academy of Sciences;the supports of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars(31625024);Singapore-China Joint Research Grant(41761144068)
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, illus...
supported mainly by the National Specific Research Funds for Public Benefit Department(Agriculture)(201303108)to Zeqing Niu;the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars(31625024)to Chaodong Zhu;partially by the NSFC Program J1211002;the grant(Y229YX5105)from Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution,Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese cleptoparasitic bee genus Tetralonioidella Strand,1914 is studied.Fourteen species are found in China,with nine new species,namely T.damenglongensis Niu&Zhu,sp.nov.,T.dinghuensis Niu&Zhu,sp.nov.,T.emeien...
supported mainly by the National Specific Research Funds for Public Benefit Department(Agriculture)(201303108)to Zeqing Niu;the NSFC Program J1211002;the grant(Y229YX5105)from Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution,Chinese Academy of Sciences
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 ...
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;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
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 k...
supported by "Postdoctoral Program for African Researchers of China-Africa Science and Technology Partnership Program (CASTEP)";the Chinese Postdoc Foundation,Beijing;the "National Natural Science Foundation of China (U0936601)"
This paper is a supplementary work to the total 14 species of genus Panurginus described recently from the eastern Palaearctic Region. This genus is not well studied in China and where there were only two known specie...
Allodapine bees present particular problems for taxonomy due to a high level of morphological conservatism in adults, even between genera. However, this tribe of bees also presents a unique opportunity to explore the ...
Alpha-glucosidase is synthesized in the hypopharyngeal glands located in the head of worker bees including Apisflorea. To analyze the developmental stage-specific expression of the a-glucosidase gene inA.florea, total...