Bees of the Mediterranean basin: biodiversity insights from specimens in the IMBE collection (Marseille, France).

ABSTRACT:

Background

The spectacular decline in pollinators and their prominent role in pollination of natural and cultivated plants has stimulated research on pollinating insects. Over the last ten years, much ecological research has been carried out on bees, often generating a large volume of specimens and increasing the importance of entomological collections. Here, we present the bee collection of the IMBE laboratory (Marseille, France) after ten years of study of plant-pollinator networks.

New information

We provide distribution data on 2181 specimens belonging to 246 species of bees, mainly from the Mediterranean Region of France. One of the recorded species, Lasioglossumsoror, is classified as "endangered" at the European level, while 68 of the recorded species are curre

SUBMITTER: Schneider L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11699511 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature