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The bumblebees of North China (Apidae, Bombus Latreille)
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An, Jiandong, Huang, Jiaxing, Shao, Youquan, Zhang, Shiwen, Wang, Biao, Liu, Xinyu, Wu, Jie, Williams, Paul H. (2014): The bumblebees of North China (Apidae, Bombus Latreille). Zootaxa 3830 (1): 1-89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3830.1.1
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