A Faunal Study of the Native Bees of Mexico (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)

申请为期两年的资金，以清点墨西哥本地(非蜜蜂)蜜蜂动物群。标本将在田间被钉住或分层，运往加工中心进行标记、分类等，然后送往专家鉴定。标本数据在确定后将被计算机化，标本将平等地存放在美国和墨西哥的主要收藏品中。墨西哥科学家和学生将被用于实地工作，一些人将接受蜜蜂系统学方面的培训。墨西哥蜜蜂的清单、实地指南、说明和钥匙将以西班牙语和/或英语编制和发布。将在各有关专家方便的情况下完成和出版这份清单所激发的其他系统性和渐进性工作。墨西哥巨大而非凡的蜜蜂动物群将成为生态学、植物生物学、进化论、动物地理学和其他学科科学家可用的藏品。将在墨西哥建立一个精心策划和确定的本地蜜蜂收藏，墨西哥人员将接受培训，以管理这个收藏并对其进行科学利用。由于目前墨西哥自然栖息地遭到破坏，以及最近将非洲蜜蜂引入墨西哥，这一清单将对分类学具有重要的科学价值，而且是及时的。

Funds are requested for two years to inventory the native (non- Apis) bee fauna of Mexico. Specimens will be pinned or layered in the field, shipped to a processing center for labeling, sorting, etc., and then sent to experts for identification. Data from specimens will be computerized after determination, and specimens will be deposited in major collections equally in the United States and in Mexico. Mexican scientists and students will be used in field work and some trained in bee systematics. Checklists, field guides, descriptions, and keys to the bees of Mexico will be produced and published in Spanish and/or in English. Other systematic and evolutionary work stimulated by this inventory will be completed and published at the convenience of various experts involved. The large and extraordinary bee fauna of Mexico will become well represented in collections available to scientists in ecology, plant biology, evolution, zoogeography and other disciplines. A well curated and determined collection of native bees will be established in Mexico and Mexican personnel will be trained to curate this collection and to make scientific use of it. This inventory will be of great scientific value to systematics, as well as being timely because of current destruction of natural habitats in Mexico and the recent introduction of the Africanized honey bee into Mexico.