Bombus pascuorum maculatus Vogt, 1909

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, Zootaxa 4237 (1), pp. 41-77 : 62

Bombus pascuorum maculatus Vogt, 1909

This is a mountain subspecies, spread from the Pyrenees until the Cantabrian Range, between 600 and 2300 m high. Hybrid forms have been observed in the Iberian System, Sierra de Béjar and Sierra de Guadarrama ( Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004). Castro (1994) considered it a hybrid form of B. pascuorum freygessneri and B. pascuorum dusmeti .

At present it has been collected in temperate oceanic Pyrenean forests and supraforestal pastures between 960 and 1992 m ( Fig. 7), on Antirrhinum majus L., Buxus sempervirens L. Centaurea scabiosa L., Echium plantagineum (Nox.) , Echium vulgare L. , Eryngium bourgatii Gouan. , Lotus corniculatus L., Medicago sativa L. , Origanum vulgare L., Prunella vulgaris L., Reseda lutea L., Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq., Salvia pratensis L., Taraxacum officinale Wigg. , Trifolium pratense L. , Trifolium repens L. y Vicia cracca L.

According to the current data, this species is not regarded as being scarce or threatened ( Table 2).

New records. Spain: Girona: Bellver de Cerdanya, 25-VII-2009, 3 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME ; La Molina road, 25-VII-2009, 3 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME ; La Molina , ski resort, 25-VII-2009, 3 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME ; Ribes de Freser , VI-2009, 1 worker, P. Vargas leg. ; 24-VII-2009, 4 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME. Huesca : Benasque, 15-VII-2011, 7 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME ; Biescas , 10-VIII-2014, 1 male, 1 worker, P. Acosta leg., UMU; Canfranc, 3-VII-2006, 2 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME ; Chía , Mirador, Valle de Benasque, 14-VII-2011, 3 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME ; Formigal , ski resort, 9-VII-2009, 1 queen, C. Ornosa leg., UCME ; Formigal , 9-VII-2009, 2 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME ; Ordesa , Circo de Soaso, 8-VIII-2014, 1 worker, P. Acosta leg., UMU; Panticosa, 5-VI-2006, 1 worker, C. Ornosa leg., UCME ; Peña Oroel , 2-V-2009, 1 queen, C. Ornosa leg., UCME ; San Nicolás de Bujaruelo , 9-VIII-2014, 1 worker, P. De la Rúa leg., UMU; Selva de Oza, 10-VII-2009, 2 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME ; Tramacastilla de Tena , 9-VII-2009, 4 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME ; Vallibierna , 15-VII-2011, 7 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME ; Zuriza , 10-VII-2 009, 4 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME ; Zuriza track, 12-VIII-2014, 1 male, 1 worker, E. Acosta leg., UMU. Lleida : Artiga de Lin , 15-VIII-2 012, 2 males, 2 workers, P. De la Rúa leg. UMU; Castellvell de Solsona, 11-VIII-2012, 2 workers, P. De la Rúa leg.; UMU Grasslands between Estany Ratera and Estany Sant Maurici, 26-VII-2006, 4 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME ; Ruda track, 10- VII-2014, 1 worker, C. Ornosa leg., UCME ; Viella , 13-VIII-2012, 3 workers, P. De la Rúa leg., UMU.