Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Alternative spelling: Mendacibombus

Synonym: Oligoapis Nel and Petrulevičius 2003

Full reference: A. S. Skorikov. 1914. Les formes nouvelles des bourdons (Hymenoptera, Bombidae). VI. Russkoe Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 14:119-129

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

See also Nel and Petrulevičius 2003

Sister taxa: Bombus (Bombus), Bombus (Cullumanobombus), Bombus (Melanobombus), Bombus (Paraelectrobombus), Bombus (Psithyrus), Bombus abavus, Bombus anacolus, Bombus coironensis, Bombus crassipes, Bombus dilectus, Bombus florissantensis, Bombus luianus, Bombus proavus, Bombus vetustus

Subtaxa: Bombus (Mendacibombus) beskonakensis

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bes-Konak (Miocene of Turkey)

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