<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Vera Imperatriz-Fonseca and her team
have just published an inventory article in Biota Neotropica (full text
available in Portuguese). </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>Abstract: </b>For this work, we considered
the results of four studies that sampled bees on flowers in the two main
biomes of São Paulo State: Atlantic forest (3 locations) and "cerrado"
(4 locations). We found 276 species of bees belonging to 88 genera: 207
species and 78 genera in the Atlantic forest and 105 genera and 40 species
in the "cerrado" biome. Apidae family was the most represented
in both biomes. In the sampled areas, bees visited 433 plant species: 361
in the Atlantic forest and 75 in the "cerrado" .</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Number of species</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">In the world: 17.000</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">In Brazil: 1.678</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Estimated in São Paulo State: 729</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>Citation</b>: </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Imperatriz-Fonseca V.L, Alves-dos-Santos,
I., Santos-Filho, P.S., Engels, W., Ramalho, M., Wilms, W., Aguilar, J.B.V.,
Pinheiro-Machado, C.A., Alves, D.A. and Kleinert, A.M.P. Checklist of Bees
and Honey plants from São Paulo State, Brazil. Biota Neotrop. vol
11 no. 1a: </font><a href="http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v11n1a/en/abstract?inventory+bn0321101a2011"><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v11n1a/en/abstract?inventory+bn0321101a2011</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Cheers, Liz<br>
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Elizabeth Sellers</font>
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