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

资金被要求为两年，以清查本地（非api）蜜蜂动物群墨西哥。标本将在现场被钉住或分层，运到加工中心进行标记、分类等，然后送到专家鉴定。标本的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。将以西班牙语和/或英语制作和出版检查清单、实地指南、描述和墨西哥蜜蜂的钥匙。其他系统的和进化的工作将在有关专家方便时完成和出版。墨西哥庞大而非凡的蜜蜂动物群将在生态学、植物生物学、进化、动物地理学和其他学科的科学家们的收藏中得到很好的代表。将在墨西哥建立一个精心管理和确定的本地蜜蜂采集库，墨西哥人员将接受培训，以管理这一采集库并对其进行科学利用。由于墨西哥的自然栖息地正在遭到破坏，而且最近非洲化的蜜蜂被引入墨西哥，因此这份清单对系统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.