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.