Bombus rupestris (Fabricius, 1793)

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 : 56

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4237.1.3
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scientific name	Bombus rupestris (Fabricius, 1793)
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Bombus rupestris (Fabricius, 1793) View in CoL

Eurosiberian species social parasite mainly on B. lapidarius and B. sichelii ( Rasmont 1988) . Its populations are in regression, but despite that, the species is not considered threatened at a continental scale: Least Concern in the IUCN Red List of European Bees (Rasmont et al. 2015).

In the studied area there are two subspecies:

References

Rasmont, P. (1988) Monographie ecologique et zoogeographique des Bourdons de France et de Belgique (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombinae). Faculte des Sciences agronomiques de L´Etat, Gembloux, 310 pp.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Apidae
Genus	Bombus
SubGenus	Psithyrus

Specimens