Calyptapis Cockerell, 1906

Dehon, Manuel, Engel, Michael S., Gerard, Maxence, Aytekin, A. Murat, Ghisbain, Guillaume, Williams, Paul H., Rasmont, Pierre & Michez, Denis, 2019, Morphometric analysis of fossil bumble bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombini) reveals their taxonomic affinities, ZooKeys 891, pp. 71-118 : 71

Genus Calyptapis Cockerell, 1906

Type species.

Calyptapis florissantensis Cockerell, 1906, by original designation.

Diagnosis.

Three submarginal cells; third submarginal cell longest, shorter than combined length of first and second submarginal cells; first and second submarginal cells of more or less same size; first submarginal cell rounded; marginal cell wide, apex rounded and scarcely offset from anterior forewing margin; basal vein long and straight, slightly curved in its base, meeting M+Cu near juncture of cu-a with M+Cu; cu-a slightly curved; 1m-cu meeting M at middle of second submarginal cell; 2m-cu slightly curved and not in line with 2rs-m, positioned before crossing between 2rs-m and M; 2rs-m strongly arched; 2Rs scarcely arched basally; pterostigma relatively small. Pro- and mesosoma black; corbicula preserved; no alar papillae (or, more likely, not visible as preserved); forewing not colored. Similar in forewing venation to Bombus s. l. but differing from most species in the combination of a simultaneously distally bulging third submarginal cell (i.e., 2rs-m strongly arched), with a relatively unmodified second submarginal cell (i.e., 2Rs scarcely arched basally, a putatively plesiomorphic trait and somewhat similar to many euglossines), and broad marginal cell apex that is scarcely offset from anterior wing margin.