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Bombus flavidus Eversmann 1852
Description
Bombus flavidus Eversmann, 1852
Bombus flavidus is a boreo-alpine species, distributed in the north of the Eurasian continent, Scandinavia and Siberia, where the nominal subspecies spreads. It is the social parasite of B. jonellus, but in the Pyrenees it shows preference for B. pyrenaeus and secondarily by B. monticola (Løken 1984, Rasmont 1988). There is a double threat to B. flavidus since the two main host species have small and declining populations (Table 2).
It was assessed as Least Concern in the IUCN Red List of European Bees (Rasmont et al. 2015) and as Endangered (EN) in the IUCN Spanish Red List (Ornosa & Torres 2009), where it is locally less abundant (Table 2). In the Pyrenean fauna, it is represented by a unique subspecies:
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 55, 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
- Eversmann
- Species
- flavidus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bombus flavidus Eversmann, 1852 sec. Ornosa, Torres & Rúa, 2017
References
- Loken, A. (1984) Scandinavian species of the genus Psithyrus Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement, 23, 16438,
- 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.