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- W137490060 abstract "MELITTOLOGY, THE STUDY of the EarthOs more than 21,000 species of bees, owes much to the collective contributions of twentieth century scholars in the former Soviet Union. Prominent historical Þgures among these are S. I. Malyshev (Genesis of the Hymenoptera and Phases of Their Evolution) andV. V. Popov (The Hymenoptera in Animal World of the USSR). Valuable, sometimes insightful studies have been contributed by that nationOs mellitologists regarding bee nesting biologies, cleptoparasitism, soral associations, bionomics, biogeography, sociality, paleontology, taxonomy,evolution, andanatomy.Only,however, in this decade, with the publication of Radchenko and PeskenkoOs book are these works exhaustively summarized and synthesized with the rest of the worldOs literature on bees. My review is based on the 18-page printed English summary and English translations of chapters 7 (“The OProto-beeO and its Nest”) and 8 (“Evolution of Bee Nesting”) provided by Dr. Radchencko. This book provides a useful scholarly compendium that integratesmany aspects of beenatural history and biology listed above, emphasizing evolutionary frameworks for understanding the daunting diversity of nesting biologies (Part II of the book) and degrees of sociality (Part III) that typify bees today. The extent of the authorsO exhaustive review of topics is exempliÞed by their 3 plates of Þgures depicting just egg placement in beesO nest cells. They illustrate fully 54 such cases, including placement of the egg atop, beneath, above, and even within the larval provision mass of pollen and nectar. They enumerate hypothesized features possessed by the “proto-bee,” their hypothetical ancestor of todayOs bees, to include: a solitary rather than social existence; external pollen transport aided by branched body hairs and sattened metabasitarsi; subterranean, simply branched nests whose earthen cell walls are smoothed and tamped using the pygidial plate, but not varnished with a secretory lining; Þrm, dough-like larval mass-provisions of pollen and nectar; and cocoons spun by mature larvae. Evolution is the thread that the authors have used in their book to stitch together their comparative review and synthesis of the extensive literature of bees that has accumulated over the past several centuries. Although it is clear that they are familiar with the concepts of cladistics, their arguments are primarily narrative, relying on logic and parsimony to winnow possible hypotheses of bee ancestry and origins of characters possessed by various bee taxa today. Although modern phylogeneticists would like to see more rigorous analyses, many of the authorsO arguments are persuasive and should serve as excellent foundations for future phylogenetic studies. We can hope that a full English translation of this valuable book will become available, as was capably provided by O. W. Richards for MalyshevOs seminal book cited at the beginning of this review. Radchenko and Pesenko provide a review of over 1,800 reference citations, but unfortunately for non-readers, the namesof authors of thepublishedworks inRussian are all printed in Cyrillic text. If translated, this book will, I predict, become a valuable resource for mellitologists around the world, as it Þlls a much needed synthesis not found in any other single work of any language." @default.
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