Bombus (Thoracobombus) fervidus (Fabricius, 1798)

Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula’s Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), Zootaxa 5522 (1), pp. 1-391 : 145

Bombus (Thoracobombus) fervidus (Fabricius, 1798)

[ Lectotype: ZMUC; ♀ America ; Bombus (Fervidobombus) californicus Smith, 1854 (synonym) type: NHMUK; ☿ California, USA]

The individuals of this species inhabiting Baja California exhibit the coloration pattern of Bombus californicus . However, due to the lack of evidence supporting its status as a distinct species, we follow the treatment of Williams et al. (2014). Bombus fervidus is categorized as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List ( IUCN 2022). This species has been reported in the Coastal Sage Matorral, Chaparral, and Baja California Mountains with vouchered specimens in LACM, UCRC, SEMC ( GBIF 2023). During this project, it has been recorded exclusively in the Coastal Sage Matorral in April and May 2021; and May 2022. Voucher specimens are in MABC (1 ♀, 1 ♂), and ECOAB (1 ♀). See fig. 85.