Identification of Hymenoptera (wasps, bees, ants)

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22.08.2012 18:09, AVA

However, almost no one supports this idea, except for the author of that article, on combining all bee families into Apidae (although he is a former graduate student of Michener). Moreover, not only beehives, but also other weepies, the same Brothers, for example, and the rest. At the end of the year, an article will be published in zootaxa with the current state of families in membranes (with the number of fossil and abstract genera and species), there are bees in 7 families

You, dear anonymous, are mistaken.
This is not an idea, but the result of such a popular cladistic analysis in the West (I myself am not a big fan of it at all).
Denis Brothers, of course, is a well-known specialist (to me personally), but not an apidologist. In his works, too, not everything is smooth (and who is without sin?). I don't know who the others are.
The fact that "bee colonies" do not welcome this approach is understandable, although it is subjective. Most of them are not interested in taxonomy of higher taxa, and it is more convenient for them to operate with the old systems.
Finally, Zootaxa publishes many highly controversial articles. And in general, this will be just another view of the author (I don't know who exactly) on the division of bees, but not the "current state of families".

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08.09.2012 1:29, CosMosk

Ukraine, Rivne region, March 25.
Lasioglossum sp. ??

male Andrenidae

for pereponschikov: if I take it, then I'll leave an old mattress with bees, riders and other pereponshchiny in ZINA (or at the congress I'll give it back). Who needs it-take it, it's generally banal, but suddenly someone will come in handy.

they will give away the figures from the museum - this is their function. It was Alex who never got my broadcast from Krasnoyarsk, sorry(((