Bombus Latreille 1802 (bumble bee)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. 3:1-467

Parent taxon: Bombini according to H. Aiba and M. Ono 2025

See also Carpenter 1992, Cockerell 1908, Dehon et al. 2019, Dehon et al. 2014, Prokop et al. 2017 and Zeuner and Manning 1976

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Bombus (Bombus) Bombus (Calyptapis) Bombus (Cullumanobombus) Bombus (Kronobombus) Bombus (Megabombus) Bombus (Melanobombus) Bombus (Mendacibombus) Bombus (Paraelectrobombus) Bombus (Psithyrus) Bombus (Timebombus) Bombus abavus Bombus anacolus Bombus coironensis Bombus crassipes Bombus dilectus Bombus florissantensis Bombus luianus Bombus messegus Bombus proavus Bombus vetustus

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Type: Bombus messegus

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection)

• Turolian of France (1)

• Miocene of China (3), Czechia (2), Germany (3), Greece (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (3), Türkiye (1), United States (2: Idaho, Washington)

• Oligocene of Germany (4)

• Eocene of United States (2: Colorado)

Total: 24 collections including 25 occurrences

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