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Bombus vetustus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Taxonomy
Bombus vetustus was named by Rasnitsyn and Michener (1991). Its type specimen is PIN 2054/229, an exoskeleton (whole bee), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Botchi (PIN collection 2054), which is in a Miocene lacustrine - small diatomite in the Botchi Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1991Bombus vetustus Rasnitsyn and Michener p. 583 figs. 1-8
2019Bombus vetustus Dehon et al. p. 95 figs. 2C, 3H

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyApoidea
—AnthophilaLatreille 1804
familyApidae()
subfamilyApinae()
—Apiti
—CorbiculataShuckard 1866
tribeBombini
genusBombus
speciesvetustus

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 vetustus Rasnitsyn and Michener 1991
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available