Systematic Entomology

Edited By: Peter S. Cranston, Thomas J. Simonsen, Lars Vilhelmsen and Shaun L. Winterton

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Online ISSN: 1365-3113

Associated Title(s): Agricultural and Forest Entomology, Ecological Entomology, Insect Conservation and Diversity, Insect Molecular Biology, Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Physiological Entomology

Virtual Issue - Systematic Melittology: a virtual issue on bee systematics - October 2010

Systematic Melittology: a virtual issue on bee systematics, October 2010

Edited by Peter S. Cranston, Lars Vilhelmsen, Michael Engel

The editors of Systematic Entomology are proud to present a new virtual issue dealing with bee systematics in the broadest sense. Comprising some twenty papers including an introductory piece by Michael Engel, it covers a substantial part of the diversity of bees. You will find both taxonomic and phylogenetic studies at different systematic levels, conducted with a range of different character systems, both morphological and molecular. Spanning more than a quarter of a century, these papers also form a potted history of recent bee systematics, illustrating the increasing importance of molecular techniques in combination with traditional data sources as well as the value of alternative character systems. We hope the issue will make for enjoyable reading and serve as an inspiration for submissions of similar quality to Systematic Entomology.

Systematic melittology: where to from here?
MICHAEL S. ENGEL

Phylogeny and revision of the Neotropical bee genus Rhectomia s.l. Moure (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Augochlorini)
RODRIGO B. GONÇALVES

A molecular phylogeny of the genus Apis suggests that the Giant Honey Bee of the Philippines, A. breviligula Maa, and the Plains Honey Bee of southern India, A. indica Fabricius, are valid species
NATHAN LO, ROSALYN S. GLOAG, DENIS L. ANDERSON, BENJAMIN P. OLDROYD

Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic relationships of the bee genus Parapsaenythia Friese (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Protandrenini), with biogeographic inference for the South American Chacoan Subregion
KELLI S. RAMOS, GABRIEL A.R. MELO

Phylogeny of the bee family Melittidae (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) based on combined molecular and morphological data
DENIS MICHEZ, SÉBASTIEN PATINY, BRYAN N. DANFORTH

Phylogeny and classification of the Xeromelissinae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea, Colletidae) with special emphasis on the genus Chilicola
LAURENCE PACKER

Hasinamelissa: a new genus of allodapine bee from Madagascar revealed by larval morphology and DNA sequence data
LUKE B. CHENOWETH, SUSAN FULLER, SIMON M. TIERNEY, YUNG C. PARK, MICHAEL P. SCHWARZ

A molecular phylogeny of the Old World stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) and the non-monophyly of the large genus Trigona
CLAUS RASMUSSEN, SYDNEY A. CAMERON

Phylogeny of the World Anthophorini (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apidae)
ANDREAS DUBITZKY

Phylogeny of the bees of the family Apidae based on larval characters with focus on the origin of cleptoparasitism (Hymenoptera: Apiformes)
JAKUB STRAKA, PETR BOGUSCH

A review of the bee genus Augochlorella (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Augochlorini)
B. W. T. COELHO

Phylogeny of the bee genus Agapostemon (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)
Jessica Janjic, Laurence Packer