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Bumblebees with big teeth: revising the subgenus Alpigenobombus with the good, the bad and the ugly of numts (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
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- 1. Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.
- 2. Institute of Apicultural Research (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences), 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Haidian, Beijing 100093, China.
- 3. Royal Society for Protection of Nature (RSPN), Thimphu, Bhutan.
- 4. South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China.
- 5. Agricultural University of Georgia, 240 Agmashenebli Alley, Tbilisi, Georgia.
- 6. Rajiv Gandhi University, Papum Pare, Arunachal Pradesh 791112, India. & National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560065, India.
- 7. Kunming Institute of Botany (Chinese Academy of Sciences), 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China.
- 8. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
- 9. China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
- 10. Institute of Zoology (Chinese Academy of Sciences), 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang, Beijing 100101, China. & Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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Williams, Paul H., An, Jiandong, Dorji, Phurpa, Huang, Jiaxing, Jaffar, Saleem, Japoshvili, George, Narah, Jaya, Ren, Zongxin, Streinzer, Martin, Thanoosing, Chawatat, Tian, Li, Orr, Michael C. (2023): Bumblebees with big teeth: revising the subgenus Alpigenobombus with the good, the bad and the ugly of numts (Hymenoptera: Apidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 892 (1): 1-65, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.892.2283, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2283/9851
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