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Orr, M. C., A. C. Hughes, D. Chesters, J. Pickering, C.-D. Zhu, and J. S. Ascher. 2021. Global Patterns and Drivers of Bee Distribution. Current Biology 31: 451-458.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.10.053

Insects are the focus of many recent studies suggesting population declines, but even invaluable pollination service providers such as bees lack a modern distributional synthesis. Here, we combine a uniquely comprehensive checklist of bee species distributions and >5,800,000 public bee occurrence re…

Collected Formicidae and identified Lycaenidae

Leif Aarvik

Norway

Collected Tortricidae and identified Noctuidae

Anthony Abbate

United States

Halictidae

Collected Halictidae

William Louis Abbott

February 23, 1860 – April 02, 1936

United States

Vespertilionidae

Collected Vespertilionidae and identified Saccolomataceae

Identified Pompilidae

Nancy Ellen Adams

April 21, 1958 – August 20, 2005

Coenagrionidae

Collected Coenagrionidae and identified Coenagrionidae

Collected Formicidae and identified Formicidae

Pedro Aguilar Fernández

November 28, 1926 – October 02, 2013

Peru

Accipitridae

Collected Accipitridae

Constantin Ahnger
Constantin Ahnger

November 10, 1855 – June 27, 1942

Finland

Muscidae

Collected Muscidae

Roger D. Akre

March 27, 1937 – August 16, 1994

United States

Formicidae

Collected Formicidae

John Merton Aldrich
John Merton Aldrich

January 28, 1866 – May 27, 1934

United States

Dolichopodidae

Collected Dolichopodidae and identified Tachinidae

Byron Allen Alexander

April 14, 1952 – November 30, 1996

Apidae

Collected Apidae and identified Apidae

Charles Paul Alexander

September 25, 1889 – December 03, 1981

United States

Limoniidae

Collected Limoniidae and identified Limoniidae

Jean Alexander Ross

1908 – 1984

Cicadellidae

Collected Cicadellidae

Moacyr Alvarenga

1915 – 2010

Apidae

Collected Apidae and identified Erotylidae

Collected Staphylinidae and identified Curculionidae

Collected Rubiaceae and identified Campanulaceae

Viktor Apfelbeck
Viktor Apfelbeck

April 18, 1859 – May 01, 1934

Austria

Carabidae

Collected Carabidae and identified Clausiliidae

John Scaife Armstrong

June 09, 1892 – February 07, 1977

New Zealand

Hepialidae

Collected Hepialidae

Identified Megachilidae

James S. Ashe

February 23, 1947 – December 27, 2005

United States

Staphylinidae

Collected Staphylinidae and identified Staphylinidae

Peter D. Ashlock

August 1929 – January 26, 1989

United States

Lygaeidae

Collected Lygaeidae and identified Lygaeidae

William Harris Ashmead
William Harris Ashmead

September 19, 1855 – October 17, 1908

United States

Apidae

Collected Apidae and identified Cynipidae

Ruth Elizabeth Ashton Nelson

November 29, 1896 – July 04, 1987

United States

Asteraceae

Collected Asteraceae and identified Ephedraceae

Norman Jefcoate Atkinson

1902 – November 01, 1932

Culicidae

Collected Culicidae

Kenneth Francis Auden

May 06, 1897 – May 02, 1927

United Kingdom; Canada

Chrysomelidae

Collected Chrysomelidae

Ricardo Ayala

Mexico

Apidae

Collected Apidae and identified Apidae

Thomas Ayres

July 1828 – July 31, 1913

South Africa

Scarabaeidae

Collected Scarabaeidae

Ernest Adna Back

October 07, 1880 – May 21, 1959

United States

Halictidae

Collected Halictidae

Donald Burton Baker

June 02, 1922 – May 10, 2004

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; United Kingdom

Carabidae

Collected Carabidae and identified Megachilidae