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

ZooKeys

Volumn 96, Issue , 2011, Pages 11-37

  Kotthoff, Ulrich ^a   Wappler, Torsten ^b   Engel, Michael S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthophila; Apinae; Apis; Apoidea; Honey bees; Morphometrics; Taxonomy; Tertiary

Indexed keywords

APIDAE; APINAE; APINI; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 79960028969     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.96.752     Document Type: Review

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