Protobombus (Thnetobombus) basilaris Engel 2001

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Alternative combination: Protobombus basilaris

Full reference: M. S. Engel. 2001. A monograph of the Baltic amber bees and evolution of the Apoidea (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 259:1-192

Belongs to Protobombus (Thnetobombus) according to M. S. Engel 2021

See also Engel 2001

Sister taxon: Protobombus (Thnetobombus) pristinus

Type specimen: MB.I.1939 (ZMHB), an exoskeleton

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Zoological Museum, Humboldt Univ Berlin (ZHMB MfN) Collection (Eocene of Russian Federation)

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