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The arctic and alpine bumblebees of the subgenus Alpinobombus revised from integrative assessment of species' gene coalescents and morphology (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus)
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Williams, Paul H., Berezin, Mikhail V., Cannings, Sydney G., Cederberg, Björn, Ødegaard, Frode, Rasmussen, Claus, Richardson, Leif L., Rykken, Jessica, Sheffield, Cory S., Thanoosing, Chawatat, Byvaltsev, Alexandr M. (2019): The arctic and alpine bumblebees of the subgenus Alpinobombus revised from integrative assessment of species' gene coalescents and morphology (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus). Zootaxa 4625 (1): 1-68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4625.1.1
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