Bombus Latreille 1802 (bumble bee)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième 1-467

Parent taxon: Bombini according to M. Dehon et al. 2019

See also Carpenter 1992, Cockerell 1908, Dehon et al. 2014, Prokop et al. 2017 and Zeuner and Manning 1976

Sister taxa: Calyptapis, Oligobombus

Subtaxa: Bombus (Bombus) Bombus (Cullumanobombus) Bombus (Melanobombus) Bombus (Mendacibombus) Bombus (Paraelectrobombus) Bombus (Psithyrus) Bombus abavus Bombus anacolus Bombus coironensis Bombus crassipes Bombus dilectus Bombus florissantensis Bombus luianus Bombus proavus Bombus vetustus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of China (3 collections), the Czech Republic (2), France (1), Germany (3), Greece (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (3), Turkey (1), United States (2: Idaho, Washington)

Total: 17 collections including 18 occurrences

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