Ming Bai

Ming Bai collecting in China.

Dr. Ming Bai is a researcher at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He received his Diploma there for his taxonomic revision and phylogenetic analysis of scarabs from China. He worked under the supervision of Prof. Xingke Yang and Dr. Frank Krell (formerly the Natural History Museum, London), while the molecular phylogenetic analysis was under the supervision of Prof. Alfried P. Vogler (Natural History Museum, London). His dissertation focused on the origin and evolution of Scarabaeoidea using data from both extant and fossil groups. A phylogenetic analysis of the Scarabaeoidea and Scarabaeinae were undertaken separately based on morphological and molecular data. The comparative morphology and historical biogeography of Scarabaeinae were studied in detail for the first time. The species of Chinese Scarabaeinae were revised here. A large number of types and determined species of Cetoniinae and Dynastinae were also examined.

Currently, Dr. Bai is in charge of the Scarabaeoidea collection of the National Zoological Museum of China, which is part of the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The museum houses over 5 million zoological specimens, which is the largest collections in Asia. Dr. Bai has traveled over most of China collecting insects. He is looking forward to collaboration with other specialists studying scarabs.

Dr. Ming BAI

Box 92, Institute of Zoology

Chinese Academy of Sciences

No. 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District

Beijing 100101

PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

EMAIL: baim@ioz.ac.cn

TEL: 86-10-64807928

FAX: 86-10-64807099

MSN: alleculinae@hotmail.com

Skype: scarabaeoidea

URLs: http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/workers/MBai.htm

http://www.ioz.ac.cn/department/anisys/yjz_yangxk_dw_bm.asp

Publications

Monographs

1. Cui JZ, Bai M, Fan RJ, Wu H, 2009. Catalogue of the Insect Type Specimens Deposited in China, Vol. 2, China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 752 pp.
2. Ming BAI. 2008. Origin and Evolution of Scarab beetles: based on fossil, morphological and molecular data. PhD Dissertation of Chinese Academy of Sciences. 705pp.
3. CUI Junzhi, Ming BAI, Hong WU, Liqiang JI, 2007. Catalogue of the Insect Type Specimens Deposited in China, Vol. 1, China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 792pp.
4. Cui JZ, Bai M, Wu H, Ji LQ, 2007. Catalogue of the Insect Type Specimens Deposited in China, Vol. 1, China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 792 pp.

Articles

1. Bai M, Beutel RG, Shih CK, Ren D, Yang XK. 2012. Septiventeridae, a new and ancestral fossil family of Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation, China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology(Accepted).
   
2. Bai M, Ren D, Yang XK. 2012. Prosinodendron krelli from the Yixian Formation, China: a missing link among Lucanidae, Diphyllostomatidae and Passalidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Cretaceous Research (Accepted).
3. Bai M, Ahrens D, Yang XK, Ren D. 2012. New fossil evidence of the early diversification of scarabs: Archaeoscarabaeus cheni from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). InsectScience (Accepted).
4. Liu WG, Ahrens D, Bai M, Yang XK. 2011. A key to species of the genus Gastroserica Brenske of the China (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini), with the description of two new species and two new records for China. ZooKeys 139: 23-44.
5. Bai M, McCullough E, Song KQ, Liu WG, Yang XK. 2011. Evolutionary Constraints in Hind Wing Shape in Chinese Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae). PLoS ONE 6, e21600
6. Bai M, Ren D, Yang XK. 2011. Prophaenognatha, a new aclopines genus from the Yixian Formation, China and its phylogenetic position based on morphological characters (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition). 85: 984-993
7. Bai M, Jarvis K, Wang SY, Song KQ, Wang YP, Wang ZL, Li WZ, Wang W, Yang XK. 2010. A second new species of ice crawlers from China (Insecta: Grylloblattodea), with thorax evolution and the prediction of potential distribution. PLoS ONE 5, e12850
8. Bai M, Krell F, Ren D, Yang XK. 2010. A new, well-preserved species of Glaresidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from the Jehol Biota of China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 84: 676-679.
9. Ochi T, Kon M, Bai M. 2010. Four new species of the genus Phelotrupes (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae) from China. The Entomological Review of Japan 65: 141-150.
10. Ochi T, Kon M, Bai M. 2010. A new species of the genus Trox from Sichuan, China(Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Trogidae). The Entomological Review of Japan 65: 131-134
11. Ochi T, Kon M, Bai M. 2009. Three new species of the genus Copris from China, with description of a new subgenus. The Entomological Review of Japan 64: 207-216.
12. Bai M, 2009. Ecological value and conservation significances of dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Chinese Bulletin of Entomology 47: 39-46.
    
13. Bai M. and X.K. Yang. 2008. Nesting behavior and adaptive evolution of dung beetle. Chinese Bulletin of Entomology 45(3): 499-505.
14. Bai M., Zhang Y.W., and X.K. Yang. 2007. A Key to Species of the genus Caccobius Thomson (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) From China, With Description of a New Species, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 109(1): 131-135.
15. Ochi T, Kon M, Bai M. 2007. Three new species of the genus Copris from China. The Entomological Review of Japan 62: 137-144.
16. Bai M, Yang XK. 2007. Application of geometric morphometrics in biological researches. Chinese Bulletin of Entomology 44: 143-147.
17. Bai M., Ren D. and X.K. Yang. The earliest Scarab beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from Jiulongshang Formation of China, with description of a new family. submitted to Cladistics (IF: 4.270) 2007: 8/34 (Evolutionary Biology) (under review).
18. Bai M., Ren D., Yang X.K. and F.T. Krell. A phylogenetic analysis of Hybosoridae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea), with a new genus from the Yixian Formation, China. submitted to Cladistics (IF: 4.270) 2007: 8/34 (Evolutionary Biology) (under review).
19. Bai M., Ren D., Yang X.K. and F.T. Krell. A new genus of Glaresidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from the Jehol Biota of China. submitted to Acta Geologica Sinica (english) (IF: 1.781) 2007: 40/137 (Geosciences, Multidisciplinary) (under review).
20. Bai M., Yang X.K. and Y.W. Zhang. 2006. A key to species of the genus Onitis Fabricius (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from China, with the description of a new species and a new record for China. Proceedings of Entomological Society of Washington 108: 388-394.
21. Bai M. and X.K. Yang. Historical analysis of the classification of Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera: Polyphaga). Proceeding of the Fifth International Conference on Application of High-New Science and Technology in Biodiversity Conservation and Utilization, :148-156.
22. Bai M. and G. D. Ren. 2004. Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae. : 320-323. IN: Xing-Ke YANG. [ED.] Insects from Mt. Shiwandashan Area of Guangxi. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing.
23. Bai M. and G.D. Ren. 2005. Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae. : 290-300. IN: Xing-Ke YANG. [ED.] Insects from west of Qinling Area of Gansu. Science Press, Beijing.
24. Bai M. and G.D. Ren. 2003. Four new species of genus Cteniopinus Seidlitz, 1896 from China (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 28: 682-687.
25. Ren G.D. and M. Bai. 2002. Progress in the taxonomy research of the Alleculinae in the World (Coleoptera :Tenebrionidae). Journal of Hebei University (Natural Science Edition), 22(3): 307-312.
26. Cao Y.P., Bai M., Ma R., et al. 2000. Studies on the ecology and morphologicalphysiology of Rana nigromaculata before and after hibernation. Sichuan Journal of Zoology, 19(3): 159-162.