Background Apoid wasps and bees (Apoidea) are an ecologically and morphologically
diverse group of Hymenoptera, with some species of bees having evolved eusocial …

Chemoreceptors help insects to interact with their environment, to detect and assess food
sources and oviposition sites, and to aid in intra-and interspecific communication. In …

In the last 10 years, the interest in nature‐based solutions and ecosystem services like
pollination has increased profoundly and with it the need to gather knowledge about wild …

Cuckoo bees and velvet ants use different resources of their shared host bees, the former
laying eggs on the host pollen stores and the latter on immature stages. We studied the …

Despite its potential value in phylogenetic and ecological studies, the morphology of
antennal sensilla has rarely been compared quantitatively within the Apoidea. Here, through …

Aenigmetopia Malloch is the only endemic genus of miltogrammine flesh flies (Diptera:
Sarcophagidae) in Australia and, until now it has been known from a single species, A …

A taxonomic revision of the Australian species of Amobia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
(Diptera: Sarcophagidae: Miltogramminae) is completed using an integrated approach …

Bees provide important ecosystem services and are subjects of extensive studies on their α‐
diversity, which is generally calculated with indices that integrate the number of species with …

Macronychia (Moschusa) rubesca sp. nov. is described from Australia and represents the
first record of this genus from the Australasian region. An updated key to the world species of …

Opportunism and specialization appear to be widespread in apoid wasps, although the
factors affecting the diet preference (and thus explaining the degree of specialization) are …