Bombus mendax latofasciatus 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 : 54

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scientific name	Bombus mendax latofasciatus Vogt, 1909
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It is a mountain declining subspecies, spread in the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian Range, between 1400 and 2150 m ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 ) ( Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004, Santamaría et al. 2011). In the past, 69 individuals were recorded ( Ornosa 1984; Castro pers. comm.).

B. mendax latofasciatus is a very rare ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 ) and threatened subspecies ( Table 2 View TABLE 2 ), only collected once in the last eight years in the Pyrenees, in the National Park Aigüestortes and St. Maurici lake (Ornosa & Torres 2009) and in the Cantabrian Range (Picos de Europa), where 15 individuals were collected in July, 2008 (Asturias, the Bastards, Jou) ( Santamaría et al. 2011). It was assessed as Endangered (EN) in the IUCN Spanish Red List (Ornosa & Torres 2009).

New record. Spain: Lleida: Estany Ratera-Mirador track, 2200 m, 26- VII-2006, 1 worker, C. Ornosa leg., UCME.

References

Ornosa, C. (1984) La subfamilia Bombinae (Hym., Apidae) de la fauna espanola. Coleccion Tesis Doctorales, n ° 203 / 84, Ed. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, 334 pp.

Ornosa, C. & Ortiz-Sanchez, F. J. (2004) Hymenoptera: Apoidea I. In: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Ed.), Fauna Iberica. Fol. 23. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, pp. 1 - 556.

Santamaria, S., Castro L., Garcia-Camacho, R., Gimenez, L., Mendez, M., Milla, R., Teixido, A. L. & Torices, R. (2011) Abejorros (Bombus spp.: Hymenoptera, Apidae) del Jou de Los Cabrones (Parque Nacional Picos De Europa) y confirmacion de la Presencia de Bombus mendax Gerstaecker, 1869 en la Cordillera Cantabrica (Espana). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 48, 143 - 146.