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Bombus vestalis Geoffroy 1785
Description
Bombus vestalis (Geoffroy, 1785)
Western Palearctic species, spread in Europe, the north of Turkey and Elburs. In the Iberian Peninsula it includes two subspecies, of which the nominate one used to be locally abundant at the Pyrenean area, until 1700 m (Ornosa 1984, Rasmont 1988, Castro 1993, Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004), but it has not been found in recent samplings. It is a social parasite on B. terrestris (sometimes on B. lucorum), clearly much scarcer than its host in the Pyrenees.
The species was assessed as Least Concern in the IUCN Red List of European Bees (Rasmont et al. 2015).
Notes
Published as part of Ornosa, Concepción, Torres, Félix & Rúa, Pilar De La, 2017, Updated list of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from the Spanish Pyrenees with notes on their decline and conservation status, pp. 41-77 in Zootaxa 4237 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/322688
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Apidae
- Genus
- Bombus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Geoffroy
- Species
- vestalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bombus vestalis Geoffroy, 1785 sec. Ornosa, Torres & Rúa, 2017
References
- Ornosa, C. (1984) La subfamilia Bombinae (Hym., Apidae) de la fauna espanola. Coleccion Tesis Doctorales, n ° 203 / 84, Ed. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, 334 pp.
- Rasmont, P. (1988) Monographie ecologique et zoogeographique des Bourdons de France et de Belgique (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombinae). Faculte des Sciences agronomiques de L´Etat, Gembloux, 310 pp.
- Castro, L. (1993) Sobre los Bombinae (Hymenoptera, Apidae) de la Sierra de Albarracin (I). Zapateri Revista aragonesa de Entomologia, 3, 5 - 14.
- Ornosa, C. & Ortiz-Sanchez, F. J. (2004) Hymenoptera: Apoidea I. In: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Ed.), Fauna Iberica. Fol. 23. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, pp. 1 - 556.