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Bombus (bumble bee)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae
Taxonomy
Bombus was named by Latreille (1802). It is extant. It is the type genus of Bombini.
It was assigned to Bombidae by Cockerell (1908); to Apidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Bombini by Zeuner and Manning (1976), Dehon et al. (2014), Prokop et al. (2017) and Dehon et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Bombidae by Cockerell (1908); to Apidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Bombini by Zeuner and Manning (1976), Dehon et al. (2014), Prokop et al. (2017) and Dehon et al. (2019).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1802 | Bombus Latreille p. 385 |
1908 | Bombus Cockerell p. 327 |
1976 | Bombus Zeuner and Manning p. 209 |
1992 | Bombus Carpenter |
2014 | Bombus Dehon et al. p. 8 |
2017 | Bombus Prokop et al. p. 48 |
2019 | Bombus Dehon et al. p. 85 |
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G. Bombus Latreille 1802 [bumble bee]
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Subg. Bombus (Bombus) Latreille 1802
Subg. Bombus (Cullumanobombus) Vogt 1911
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†Bombus (Cullumanobombus) pristinus Unger 1867
†Bombus (Cullumanobombus) randeckensis Wappler and Engel 2012
†Bombus (Cullumanobombus) trophonius Prokop et al. 2017
Subg. Bombus (Melanobombus) Dalla Torre 1880
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†Bombus (Melanobombus) cerdanyensis Dehon et al. 2014
Subg. Bombus (Mendacibombus) Skorikov 1914
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†Bombus (Mendacibombus) beskonakensis Nel and Petrulevičius 2003
Invalid names: Oligoapis Nel and Petrulevičius 2003 [synonym]
Subg. †Bombus (Paraelectrobombus) Nel and Petrulevičius 2003
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†Bombus (Paraelectrobombus) patriciae Nel and Petrulevičius 2003
Subg. Bombus (Psithyrus) Lepeletier 1832 [cuckoo bumblebee]
†Bombus abavus Heer 1867
†Bombus anacolus Zhang et al. 1994
†Bombus coironensis Riou 1999
†Bombus crassipes Novák 1878
†Bombus dilectus Zhang et al. 1994
†Bombus florissantensis Cockerell 1906
†Bombus luianus Zhang 1990
†Bombus proavus Cockerell 1931
†Bombus vetustus Rasnitsyn and Michener 1991
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available