Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae
Alternative combination: Calyptapis florissantensis
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1906. Fossil Hymenoptera from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College 50(2):33-58
Belongs to Bombus (Calyptapis) according to M. S. Engel and T. Wappler 2025
See also Cockerell 1906, Cockerell 1908, Cockerell 1908, Dehon et al. 2019, Engel 2021 and Zeuner and Manning 1976
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Mus. Comp. Zool. No. 2008, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: Colorado collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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