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Protobombus (Protobombus) indecisus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Taxonomy
Protobombus indecisus was named by Cockerell (1908). Its type specimen is AMNH BJH 98, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Electrapis (Protobombus) indecisus by Zeuner and Manning (1976); it was recombined as Electrapis indecisus by Spahr (1987); it was recombined as Protobombus (Protobombus) indecisus by Engel (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1908Chalcobombus humilis Cockerell p. 326
1908Protobombus indecisus Cockerell p. 326
1909Protobombus indecisus Cockerell p. 10 fig. 5
1909Chalcobombus humilis Cockerell p. 12 fig. 6,7
1960Electrapis (Electrapis) apoides Manning p. 307 fig. 1
1976Electrapis (Protobombus) indecisus Zeuner and Manning
1976Chalcobombus humilis Zeuner and Manning p. 208
1976Electrapis (Electrapis) apoides Zeuner and Manning p. 227
1987Chalcobombus humilis Spahr p. 11
1987Electrapis apoides Spahr p. 12
1987Electrapis indecisus Spahr p. 12
2001Protobombus indecisus Engel pp. 101-103 figs. 69-73 PL 6a,b
2021Protobombus (Protobombus) indecisus Engel p. 51

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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
—Hymenopterida
RankNameAuthor
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyApoidea
—AnthophilaLatreille 1804
familyApidae()
subfamilyApinae()
—Apiti
—CorbiculataShuckard 1866
tribeElectrapiniEngel 1998
subtribeElectrapina
genusProtobombus
subgenusProtobombus
speciesindecisus()

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.

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Invalid names: Chalcobombus humilis Cockerell 1908 [synonym], Electrapis (Electrapis) apoides Manning 1960 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available