Bombus messegus Engel and Wappler 2025 (bumble bee)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Full reference: M. S. Engel and T. Wappler. 2025. Taxonomic names, in 24 million years of pollination interaction between European linden flowers and bumble bees. New Phytologist 248:2111-2127

Belongs to Bombus according to M. S. Engel and T. Wappler 2025

Sister taxa: 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 proavus, Bombus vetustus

Type specimen: NHMMZ PE 2001/5215a-LS, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Enspel, horizon S14, which is in a MP 28 crater lake shale in Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Germany (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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