Bombus (Alpigenobombus) nobilis Friese, s. l.
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43. Bombus (Alpigenobombus) nobilis Friese s. l.
(Fig. 46)
Bombus validus Friese, 1905:510, syntype queen (Tkalců, 1987:60) MNHU examined. Synonymised provisionally with Bombus nobilis Friese by Williams (1998). ‘Turkestan Kashgar’, believed incorrect.
Bombus nobilis Friese, 1905:513, type not found (Williams et al., 2009). China: Sichuan.
Bombus sikkimi Friese, 1918:82, syntype queen MNHU examined. Synonymised provisionally with Bombus nobilis Friese by Williams (1998). [India]
Nobilibombus morawitziides Skorikov, 1933b:62, holotype worker ZISP examined. Synonymised with Alpigenobombus validus (Friese) by Tkalců (1987). Synonymised provisionally with Bombus nobilis Friese by Williams (1998). China: ‘Gansu’, probably Qinghai.
Bombus (Nobilibombus) xizangensis Wang, 1979:188, holotype worker IZB examined. Synonymised provisionally with Bombus nobilis Friese by Williams (1998). China: Xizang.
Bombus (Nobilibombus) chayaensis Wang, 1979:189, holotype queen IZB examined. Synonymised provisionally with Bombus nobilis Friese by Williams (1998). China: Xizang.
Taxonomy. For a discussion of the taxonomy of this species see Williams et al. (2009) and Williams (2011).
Material examined. 8 workers 1 male (IAB).
Distribution in Gansu. Common at medium to high elevations of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in the southwest and western mountains (Fig. 46); 4 localities between 2196 and 3524 m (IAB).
Distribution in China. Yunnan, Gansu (IAB).
Forage plants. ASTERACEAE: Carduus crispus, Ligularia sp., Saussurea sp.; ONAGRACEAE: Epilobium angustifolium.
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Friese
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Apidae
- Genus
- Bombus
- Species
- nobilis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bombus (Alpigenobombus) nobilis , 2011
References
- Friese, H. (1905) Neue oder wenig bekannte Hummeln des russischen Reiches (Hymenoptera). Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskago muzeya, 9, 507 - 523.
- Tkalcu, B. (1987) Nouveaux synonymes chez les Bombinae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de Mulhouse, 1987, 59 - 64.
- Williams, P. H. (1998) An annotated checklist of bumble bees with an analysis of patterns of description (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini). Bulletin of The Natural History Museum (Entomology), 67, 79 - 152.
- Williams, P. H., Tang, Y., Yao, J. & Cameron, S. (2009) The bumblebees of Sichuan (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini). Systematics & Biodiversity, 7 (2), 101 - 190.
- Friese, H. (1918) Uber Hummelformen aus dem Himalaja. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, 1918, 81 - 86.
- Skorikov, A. S. (1933 b) Zur Hummelfauna Japans und seiner Nachbarlander. Mushi, 6 (2), 53 - 65.
- Wang, S. F. (1979) Three new species of bomble [sic] bees from Tibet. Acta entomologica sinica, 22 (2), 188 - 191.
- Williams, P. H. (2011) Bumblebees collected by the Kyushu University Expeditions to Central Asia (Hymenoptera, Apidae, genus Bombus). Esakia, 50, 27 - 36.