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SUBMITTER: Engel MS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6062569 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Engel Michael S MS Wang Bo B Alqarni Abdulaziz S AS Jia Lin-Bo LB Su Tao T Zhou Zhe-Kun ZK Wappler Torsten T
ZooKeys 20180719 775
While fossils of honey bees (Apini: <i>Apis</i> Linnaeus) are comparatively abundant in European Oligocene and Miocene deposits, the available material from Asia is scant and represented by only a handful of localities. It is therefore significant to report a new deposit with a fossil honey bee from southern China. Apis (Synapis) dalica Engel & Wappler, <b>sp. n.</b>, is described and figured from Middle Miocene sediments of Maguan County, southeastern Yunnan Province, China. This is the first f ...[more]