Bombus (Pyrobombus) hypnorum (Linnaeus)

An, Jiandong, Williams, Paul H., Zhou, Bingfeng, Miao, Zhengying & Qi, Wenzhong, 2011, The bumblebees of Gansu, Northwest China (Hymenoptera, Apidae), Zootaxa 2865, pp. 1-36 : 17

30. Bombus (Pyrobombus) hypnorum (Linnaeus) s. l.

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APIS Hypnorum Linnaeus, 1758:579 , lectotype queen ( Day, 1979:64) LSL examined. Sweden. Bombus calidus Erichson, 1851:65 , type not seen. Regarded as conspecific with Bombus hypnorum (Linnaeus) by Schmiedeknecht (1883). Russia: Khabarovskiy Kray.

Bombus hypnorum var. calidus Erichson ; Morawitz, 1890:349. China: ‘Sse-tschuan’, probably Qinghai. Taxonomy: for a discussion of the taxonomy of this species see Williams et al. (2009).

Material examined. 7 queens 26 workers 23 males (IAB).

Distribution in Gansu. Common at low to medium elevations of the southeastern and western mountains, rare at medium elevations of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in the southwest ( Fig. 33 ); 9 localities between 1049 and 2923 m (IAB).

Distribution in China. Shanxi, Jilin, Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan, Xizang, Gansu, Qinghai (IAB).

Forage plants. ASTERACEAE : Carduus crispus , Cirsium japonicum , Ligularia sp., Parasenecio roborowskii , Stemmacantha uniflora ; APIACEAE : Angelica sp.; FABACEAE : Oxytropis ochrocephala ; LAMIACEAE : Nepeta prattii , Thymus mongolicus , Salvia przewalskii , Salvia sp., Scutellaria scordiifolia ; ONAGRACEAE : Epilobium angustifolium .

Figures

FIGURE 22 – 39. Maps of Gansu showing the recorded presences of the species as black spots with county boundaries shown in grey.