Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Full reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn and C. D. Michener. 1991. Miocene fossil bumble bee from the Soviet Far East with comments on the chronology and distribution of fossil bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 84(6):583-589

Belongs to Bombus according to M. Dehon et al. 2019

See also Rasnitsyn and Michener 1991

Sister taxa: 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

Type specimen: PIN 2054/229, an exoskeleton (whole bee). Its type locality is Botchi (PIN collection 2054), which is in a Miocene lacustrine - small diatomite in the Botchi Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Botchi (PIN collection 2054)

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