Miocene honey bees from the Randeck Maar of southwestern Germany (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

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Wing Shape of Four New Bee Fossils (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) Provides Insights to Bee Evolution. PLoS ONE 9: e108865.

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Morphometric analysis of fossil bumble bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombini) reveals their taxonomic affinities. ZooKeys 891: 71.

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Antiquity of cleptoparasitism among bees revealed by morphometric and phylogenetic analysis of a Paleocene fossil nomadine (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Systematic Entomology 42: 543.

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Greater past disparity and diversity hints at ancient migrations of European honey bee lineages into Africa and Asia. Journal of Biogeography 40: 1832.

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An Early Miocene bumble bee from northern Bohemia (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 710: 43.

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Geometric morphometric analysis of a new Miocene bumble bee from the Randeck Maar of southwestern Germany (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Systematic Entomology 37: 784.

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A primitive honey bee from the Middle Miocene deposits of southeastern Yunnan, China (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 775: 117.

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Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution. Science 346: 763.

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Robbie I'Anson Price, Christoph Grüter (2015)
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