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Bombus proavus
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae
Taxonomy
Bombus proavus was named by Cockerell (1931). Its type specimen is MCZ 2940a, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Near Spokane, which is in a Langhian lacustrine - small mudstone in the Latah Formation of Washington.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1931 | Bombus proavus Cockerell p. 309 figs. Pl I fig 7 |
| 1976 | Bombus proavus Zeuner and Manning p. 212 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Bombus proavus Cockerell 1931
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004 | |||||