Li MA

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Name: Li MA

Professional title: Professor

Research focus: Insect Systematics, Phylogeny and Evolution

Contact Tel No.: 86-13700692973

E-mail address: maliwasps@aliyun.com

  • Education:

  • Ph.D., Agricultural Entomology and Pest Control, Zhejiang University, 2010

  • M.S., Agricultural Entomology and Pest Control, Yunnan Agricultural University, 2007

  • B.S., Plant Protection, Yangtze University, 2004

  • Research focus

My research focuses on the insect systematics and phylogeny from China (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Crabronidae, Ampulicidae, Pompilidae), and the relationship between species diversity of sphecid wasps and ecological environment change.

  • Awards and honors

  • Yunnan Province High-level Talent Cultivation Support Program, Young Top Talents, 2018

  • The second prize of Natural Science of Yunnan Science and Technology Award (ranked 3rd), 2010

  • Member of The Entomological Society of Yunnan (2011), Member of the Kansas Entomological Society (2014)

  • Research Projects

  • The National Natural Science Foundation of China “Study on the relationship between species diversity evolution of sphecid wasps and ecological environment change” (31760641), 2018-2021

  • The Emergency management project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China “Fauna Sinica Insecta: Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Pemphredoninae” (31750002), 2018-2022

  • The National Natural Science Foundation of China “A systematic and phylogenetic study on Sphecidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from China” (31402009), 2015-2017

  • Selected Journal Publications

  • Nawaz Haider Bashir, Qiang Li*, Li Ma*. (2021) Four new species of the genus Carinostigmus Tsuneki (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Crabronidae) from Oriental China, with an updated key to the Chinese species. Journal of Hymenoptera research. 81: 87-107.

  • Nawaz Haider Bashir, Li Ma*, Qiang Li*. Taxonomic studies of Spilomena (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) with a new species and five new records from China. Zoologia. 2021, 1-7.

  • Li Ma, Qiang Li*. (2020) The genus Polemistus de Saussure in China with descriptions of four new species (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae), Zootaxa, 4852(4): 475-484.

  • Haixia Lu, Nawaz Haider Bashir, Qiang Li*, Li Ma*. (2019) Two new species of Ceropales (Ceropales) Latreille (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae), with a key to species from China. Zootaxa, 4551 (2): 211–220.