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Bombus messegus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Taxonomy
Bombus messegus was named by Engel and Wappler (2025). Its type specimen is NHMMZ PE 2001/5215a-LS, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Enspel, horizon S14, which is in a MP 28 crater lake shale in Germany. It is the type species of Bombus, Bombus (Kronobombus).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2025Bombus messegus Engel and Wappler p. 2120 figs. 5, 6a-f, S5a,b, S6-S11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyApoidea
—AnthophilaLatreille 1804
familyApidae()
subfamilyApinae()
—Apiti
—CorbiculataShuckard 1866
tribeBombini
genusBombus
speciesmessegus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Bombus messegus Engel and Wappler 2025
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: MP 28 or 27.30000 to 23.04000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 2827.3 - 23.04Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz) Bombus messegus (211301 type locality: 211302 275580)