Ming Bai

Ming Bai, Chinese entomologist

• Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 8 taxon names authored by Ming Bai

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2012

• Bai, M., Ahrens, D., Yang, X-K. & Ren, D. 2012. New fossil evidence of the early diversification of scarabs: Alloioscarabaeus cheni (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. Insect science 19(2): 159–171. DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2011.01460.x . Reference page. 

2014

• Ahrens, D., Liu, W.G., Fabrizi, S., Bai, M. & Yang, X.K. 2014. A taxonomic review of the Neoserica (sensu lato) septemlamellata group (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini). ZooKeys 402: 67–102. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.402.7360 Reference page. 
• Zhong, F.; Bai, M.; Ge, Y.; Wan, X. 2014: Taxonomic revision of Prosopocoilus gracilis (Saunders, 1854) and its allied species from China (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Zoological systematics 39(1): 136–148. DOI: 10.11865/zs20140102 Reference page. 
• Liu, W.G., Bai, M., Yang, X.K. & Ahrens, D. 2014. Towards an improved knowledge of Sericini of the Tibetan highland: new species and records (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Bonn zoological bulletin 63(2): 157–172.

2016

• Liu, W-G., Fabrizi, S., Bai, M. & Ahrens, D. 2016. A taxonomic revision of Neoserica (sensu lato): the species groups N. lubrica, N. obscura, and N. silvestris (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini). Zookeys, 635: 123–160. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.635.9915. Reference page. 
• Li, L-M., Su, J-Y., Yang, Y-X. & Bai, M. 2016. A new species of Falsopodabrus Pic characterized with geometric morphometrics (Coleoptera, Cantharidae). ZooKeys 614: 97–112. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.614.6156. Reference page. 
• Li, S., Ricchiardi, E., Bai, M. & Yang, X-K. 2016. A taxonomy review of Oreoderus Burmeister, 1842 from China with a geometric morphometric evaluation (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Valgini). ZooKeys 552: 67-89. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.552.6096. Reference page. 

2017

• Bai, M., Nie, R-E., Zhang, W-W., Ren, D., Shih, C-K. & Yang, X-K. 2016. The first fossil Athyreini beetle (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae). Organisms diversity & evolution 17(1) [2017]: 157–162. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-016-0292-4 Reference page. 
• Jałoszyński, P., Brunke, A.J., Metscher, B., Zhang, W-W. & Bai, M. 2017. Clidicostigus gen. nov., the first Mesozoic genus of Mastigini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from Burmese amber. Cretaceous research 72: 110–116. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2016.12.022 Reference page. 
• Král, D., Hrůzová, L., Lu, Y-Y. & Bai, M. 2017. First records of Glaresidae (Coleoptera) in China, with the description of a new species from Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi. Zootaxa 4306(1): 145–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.1.11. Reference page. 
• Liu, W-G., Bai, M., Yang, X.K. & Ahrens, D. 2017d. New species and records of Lasioserica and Gynaecoserica from China (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini). Bonn zoological Bulletin, 66(1): 29–36. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Liu, W-G., Fabrizi, S., Yang, X-K., Bai, M. & Ahrens, D. 2017. New species of Nipponoserica and Paraserica from China (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini). ZooKeys 721: 65–91. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.721.13918. Reference page. 
• Nie, R-E., Breeschoten, T., Timmermans, M.J.T.N., Nadein, K.S., Xue, H-J., Bai, M., Huang, Y., Yang, X-K. & Vogler, A.P. 2017. The phylogeny of Galerucinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and the performance of mitochondrial genomes in phylogenetic inference compared to nuclear rRNA genes. Cladistics 34(2): 113–130. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12196 . Reference page. 
• Ren, J., Bai, M., Yang, S-K., Zhang, R-Z. & Ge, S-Q. 2017. Geometric morphometrics analysis of the hind wing of leaf beetles: proximal and distal parts are separate modules. ZooKeys 685: 131—149. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.685.13084. Reference page. 

2018

• Bai, M., Beutel R.G., Zhang W.W., Wang S., Hörnig M., Gröhn C., Yan E., Yang X.K. and Wipfler B., 2018. A new Cretaceous insect with a unique cephalo-thoracic scissor device. Current Biology. 28 (3): 438–443.e1. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.12.031.

2019

• Lu, Y-Y., Zorn, C., Král, D. & Bai, M. 2019. Description of Callistethus hamus sp. nov. (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae) from continental Southeast Asia using synchrotron to illustrate the aedeagus. ZooKeys, 881: 1–11. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.881.34821 Reference page. 
• Zhang, M., Ruan, Y-Y., Wan, X., Tong, Y-J., Yang, X-K. & Bai, M. 2019. Geometric morphometric analysis of the pronotum and elytron in stag beetles: insight into its diversity and evolution. Zookeys, 833: 21–40. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.833.26164 . Reference page. 

2020

• Jałoszyński, P., Bai, M. & Wang, B. 2020. A new species of the extinct mid-Cretaceous genus Scydmobisetia Jałoszyński & Yamamoto (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae). Zootaxa 4802(3): 582–586. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.3.12 Reference page. 
• Král, D., Jákl, S., Lu, Y.Y. & Bai, M. 2020. The genus Ceratophyus Fischer von Waldheim, 1824 (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae) in China, along with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4747(2): 339–349. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4747.2.6. . Reference page. 
• Shaw, J.J., Solodovnikov, A.Yu., Bai, M. & Kaulfuss, U. 2020. An amblyopinine rove beetle (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylininae, Amblyopinini) from the earliest Miocene Foulden Maar fossil-Lagerstätte, New Zealand. Journal of paleontology 94(6): 1082–1088. DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2020.35 Reference page. 
• Shaw, J.J., Wang, B., Bai, M. & Żyła, D. 2020. The Oldest Representative of the Rove Beetle Tribe Pinophilini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), from Upper Cretaceous Burmese Amber. Insects (11)174: 1–12. DOI: 10.3390/insects11030174 Reference page.