Bombus (Pyrobombus) perplexus Cresson 1863
- 1. Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK.
- 2. Royal Society for Protection of Nature, Thimphu, Bhutan.
- 3. Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China.
- 4. Institute of Highland Forest Science, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Kunming, Yunnan 650224, China. & Key Laboratory of Breeding and Utilization of Resource Insects of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Kunming, Yunnan 650224, China.
- 5. Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang, Beijing 100101, China. & Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, D- 70191 Stuttgart, Germany.
Description
Bombus (Pyrobombus) perplexus Cresson, 1863
Figs 1–2, 39‒50
B. [ombus] perplexus Cresson, 1863: 91. Type not seen (believed lost, Cresson 1916), but identity not in doubt.
B. [ombus] Hudsonicus Cresson, 1863: 92. Type not seen (believed lost, Cresson 1916), but identity not in doubt.
DiagnosisFemale
Distinguished by the combination: clypeus in the centre with widely scattered large punctures with more numerous small punctures between them; ocello-ocular area along the inner eye margin with a broad band of sparse medium and small punctures; scutum with the hair usually yellow; T5 hair usually entirely black, but sometimes white or cream posteriorly and occasionally throughout; T5 posteriorly in the middle anterior to the smooth posterior margin with a broad band of large punctures extending for at least a quarter of the length of the tergum.
Male
Distinguished by the combination: hair variable, from the thorax and metasomal T1‒6 yellow, to T1‒2 yellow and T3‒6 black
Material examinedMaterial sequenced or examined
CANADA • 1 ♀ (queen); Ontario, Toronto High Park; 43.6460° N, 79.4679° W; alt 95 m; 11 May 1983; P. Williams leg.; PW • 1 ♀ (queen); Nova Scotia, Kings County; 45.1298° N, 64.7383° W; 13 Jun. 2003; C. Sheffield leg.; BOLD-Bee25-3; PW.
USA • 1 ♀ (worker); Kentucky, Camp Ernst; 38.9974° N, 84.7141° W; alt. 246 m; 1 Jun. 2006; P. Williams leg.; BOLD-1550H03; PW • 1 ♂; New York, Catskill Mts Highway 17; 41.650° N, 74.683° W; 28 Jul. 2004; P. Williams leg.; PW.
Other material sequenced
BOLD: 3742D01, 3742D02, 3742D10, Bee25-2, 03-BC-0414, 6706C01, 6717D10-YT, BIOUG45105A07, 08BBHYM-0560.
DistributionWidespread in boreal North America in the north (from Alaska to Quebec) and extending southwards along the Appalachian mountains (Williams et al. 2014), at elevations of 0‒1852 m (L. Richardson, pers. comm.).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- PW
- Event date
- 1983-05-11 , 2003-06-13 , 2004-07-28 , 2006-06-01
- Family
- Apidae
- Genus
- Bombus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- BOLD-1550H03 , BOLD-Bee25-3
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Cresson
- Species
- perplexus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1983-05-11 , 2003-06-13 , 2004-07-28 , 2006-06-01
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bombus (Pyrobombus) perplexus Cresson, 1863 sec. Williams, Dorji, Ren, Xie & Orr, 2022
References
- Cresson E. T. 1863. List of the North American species of Bombus and Apathus. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 2: 83 - 116.
- Cresson E. T. 1916 The Cresson types of Hymenoptera. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 1: 1 - 141.
- Williams P. H., Thorp R. W., Richardson L. L. & Colla S. R. 2014. Bumble Bees of North America. An Identification Guide. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.