title: First record of the bee genus Homalictus Cockerell for China with description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictini).
abstract: This paper reports the first record of the genus Homalictus from China. We describe and illustrate H. (H.) nabanensis sp. n. collected from the Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China. The type specimens are deposited in Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, P. R. China.; Email: niuzq@ioz.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Ze-Qing
authors.initials: ZQ
authors.lastname: Niu
authors.affiliation: Agroecology in the Tropics and Subtropics (380b), University of Hohenheim, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany; Email: pia.oremek@uni-hohenheim.de.
authors.forename: Pia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Oremek
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, P. R. China.; Email: zhucd@ioz.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Chao-Dong
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D008297:Male