Apoidea of the collections of Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Toulon Museums of Natural History (France)

Many insect species have shown dramatic declines over the last decades, as a result of man-related environmental changes. which were formerly widespread are now rare. To document this trend with evidence, old records collected specimens vital. We provide here data on 9752 bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) hosted in several museums south-east France: Musée des Confluences Lyon, Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Marseille, d’Aix-en-Provence and Départemental du Var Toulon. Most (9256) come from France include 552 named species. For most these specimens, geographical location, including coordinates, is based locality (town or village) where they collected. The captured beginning nineteenth century to 2018. identifications 1377 mainly belonging genus Bombus , considered reliable, performed been checked since 2009. All other reported original ones given by collectors.