Bombus flavidus Eversmann, 1852

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 : 55

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scientific name	Bombus flavidus Eversmann, 1852
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Bombus flavidus Eversmann, 1852 View in CoL

Bombus flavidus View in CoL is a boreo-alpine species, distributed in the north of the Eurasian continent, Scandinavia and Siberia, where the nominal subspecies spreads. It is the social parasite of B. jonellus View in CoL , but in the Pyrenees it shows preference for B. pyrenaeus View in CoL and secondarily by B. monticola View in CoL ( Løken 1984, Rasmont 1988). There is a double threat to B. flavidus View in CoL since the two main host species have small and declining populations ( Table 2 View TABLE 2 ).

It was assessed as Least Concern in the IUCN Red List of European Bees (Rasmont et al. 2015) and as Endangered (EN) in the IUCN Spanish Red List (Ornosa & Torres 2009), where it is locally less abundant ( Table 2 View TABLE 2 ). In the Pyrenean fauna, it is represented by a unique subspecies:

References

Loken, A. (1984) Scandinavian species of the genus Psithyrus Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement, 23, 16438,

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.