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Article name	NEW DISTRIBUTION DATA OF APIS CERANA USSURIENSIS (HYMENOPTERA, APIDAE) FROM PRIMORSKY KRAI, RUSSIA
Authors	Maxim Yu. Proshchalykin, Senior Researcher of the Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity FEB RAS (100 let Vladivostoru Av., 159, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia); e-mail: proshchalikin@biosoil.ru Maksim E. Sergeev, Senior Researcher of the Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity FEB RAS (100 let Vladivostoru Av., 159, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia); e-mail: eksgauster@inbox.ru
Reference to article	Proshchalykin M.Yu., Sergeev M.E. 2020. New distribution data of Apis cerana ussuriensis (Hymenoptera, Apidae) from Primorsky Krai, Russia. Nature Conservation Research 5(4): 111–112. https://dx.doi.org/10.24189/ncr.2020.049
Section	Research Notes
DOI	https://dx.doi.org/10.24189/ncr.2020.049
Abstract	The Ussurian wax bee, Apis cerana ussuriensis, is a threatened subspecies distributed in Russia only in the south of the Far East. This study presents ten new localities of this taxon from Primorsky Krai (Terneyskiy district, Krasnoarmeyskiy district, Nadezhdinskiy district, Khasanskiy district). Records from Terneyskiy district extend the species' range 100 km north-east. We hypothesised that the A. cerana ussuriensis population, living at the edge of its range under severe climatic conditions, could acquire resistance to extremely low temperatures.
Keywords	Apiformes, Far East, honey bees, new locality, Red Data Book, species' range extension, Ussurian wax bee
Artice information	Received: 29.07.2020. Revised: 11.08.2020. Accepted: 14.08.2020.
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