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Alireza Monfared
Researcher at Yasouj University
Publications - 18
Citations - 270
Alireza Monfared is an academic researcher from Yasouj University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Apoidea & Megachilidae. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 17 publications receiving 231 citations. Previous affiliations of Alireza Monfared include Tarbiat Modares University.
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Unveiling cryptic species of the bumblebee subgenus Bombus s. str. worldwide with COI barcodes (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Paul H. Williams,Mark J. F. Brown,James C. Carolan,Jiandong An,Dave Goulson,A. Murat Aytekin,Lincoln R Best,Alexander M. Byvaltsev,Björn Cederberg,Robert Dawson,Jiaxing Huang,Masao Ito,Alireza Monfared,Rifat Raina,Paul Schmid-Hempel,Cory S. Sheffield,Peter Šima,Zenghua Xie +17 more
TL;DR: This is the first review of the entire subgenus Bombus to avoid fixed a priori assumptions concerning the limits of the problematic species and to diagnose all of the putative species throughout their global ranges and to map the extent of these geographic ranges.
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Nests, Petal Usage, Floral Preferences, and Immatures of Osmia (Ozbekosmia) avosetta (Megachilidae: Megachilinae: Osmiini), Including Biological Comparisons with Other Osmiine Bees
Jerome G. Rozen,Hikmet Özbek,John S. Ascher,Claudio Sedivy,Christophe J. Praz,Alireza Monfared,Andreas Müller +6 more
TL;DR: Warncke as mentioned in this paper described the nests of the bee Osmia avosetta and found that the cells are unusual in that they are lined by two layers of colorful flower petals that sandwich a thin middle layer of mud.
Nests, petal usage, floral preferences, and immatures of Osmia (Ozbekosmia) avosetta (Megachilidae, Megachilinae, Osmiini), including biological comparisons with other osmiine bees. (American Museum novitates, no. 3680)
Jerome G. Rozen,Hikmet Özbek,John S. Ascher,Claudio Sedivy,Christophe J. Praz,Alireza Monfared,Andreas Dominik Müller +6 more
TL;DR: The egg and last larval instar of Osmia avosetta are described and the presence of an egg taken from a cell and provisionally identified as belonging to Sapyga pulcherrima Morawitz suggests that this cleptoparasite may have this bee as one of its hosts.
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A survey of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from Fars Province, Iran
TL;DR: 177 bee species from the Fars Province, Iran are reported, of which 91 are new records for Iran, including seven undescribed species.
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Widespread polytypic species or complexes of local species? Revising bumblebees of the subgenus Melanobombus world-wide (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus)
Paul H. Williams,Dorjsuren Altanchimeg,A.M. Byvaltsev,Roland De Jonghe,Saleem Jaffar,George Japoshvili,Sih Kahono,Huan Liang,Maurizio Mei,Alireza Monfared,Tshering Nidup,Rifat Raina,Zong-Xin Ren,Chawatat Thanoosing,Yan-Hui Zhao,Michael C. Orr +15 more
TL;DR: For the most widespread and variable species-complexes, the revised species improve the match to the patterns expected of species, both for genetic divergence-with-distance and for sympatry, leading to three main inferences.