Bombus (Mendacibombus) convexus Wang

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 : 5-6

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1. Bombus (Mendacibombus) convexus Wang View in CoL

( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 – 21 )

Bombus lugubris Morawitz, 1880:339 View in CoL (not of Kriechbaumer, 1870:159 = B. maxillosus Klug View in CoL ), holotype worker ZISP examined. China: ‘Gan-su’, probably Qinghai.

Bombus (Mendacibombus) convexus Wang, 1979:190 View in CoL , holotype queen IZB examined. Synonymised with Bombus lugubris Morawitz View in CoL by Williams (1991). China: Xizang.

Material examined. 2 queens 64 workers 29 males (IAB).

Distribution in Gansu. Common at medium to high altitudes of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in the southwest, rare at medium altitudes of the western mountains ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 – 21 ); 14 localities between 2196 and 3524 m (IAB).

Distribution in China. Sichuan, Xizang, Gansu (IAB).

Forage plants. ASTERACEAE : Carduus crispus , Ligularia sp., Saussurea purpurascens , Saussurea sp., Senecio jacobaea ; LAMIACEAE : Nepeta prattii , Salvia przewalskii , Thymus mongolicus ; RANUNCULACEAE : Aconitum gymnandrum , A. leucostomum , Clematis tangutica ; SCROPHULARIACEAE : Pedicularis spicata , P. t o r t a, Pedicularis sp.