Bombus (Subterraneobombus) melanurus Lepeletier

An, Jiandong, Williams, Paul H., Zhou, Bingfeng, Miao, Zhengying & Qi, Wenzhong, 2011, The bumblebees of Gansu, Northwest China (Hymenoptera, Apidae), Zootaxa 2865, pp. 1-36 : 8

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scientific name	Bombus (Subterraneobombus) melanurus Lepeletier
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5. Bombus (Subterraneobombus) melanurus Lepeletier View in CoL

( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 4 – 21 )

Bombus melanurus Lepeletier View in CoL de Saint-Fargeau, [1835]:469, lectotype queen by designation of Tkalců (1969:202), UMO examined. Syria.

Bombus altaicus Eversmann, 1846:436 View in CoL , holotype queen by monotypy ( Skorikov, 1910c:572), ZISP not seen. Altai. Synonymised with Bombus melanurus Lepeletier View in CoL by Morawitz (in Fedtschenko 1875:5).

Bombus Tschitscherini Behr View in CoL in Radoszkowski, 1862:591, by indication of Radoszkowski (1860:485), holotype queen by monotypy, ISEAK examined. Russia: Siberia. Regarded as conspecific (in the form Bombus melanurus tschitscherini Behr View in CoL ) by Vogt (1909:53); synonymised with Bombus melanurus Lepeletier View in CoL by Williams (1991:62).

Material examined. 6 queens 146 workers 31 males (IAB).

Distribution in Gansu. Abundant at low to medium altitudes of the eastern loess plateau, western mountains, northwestern Qilianshan mountains ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 4 – 21 ); 23 localities between 1423 and 2923 m (IAB).

Distribution in China. Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Neimenggu, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang (IAB).

Forage plants. ASTERACEAE : Olgaea tangutica , Cosmos bipinnatus , Saussurea sp., Sinacalia tangutica ; BRASSICACEAE : Brassica napus ; CAMPANULACEAE : Adenophora polyantha ; FABACEAE : Astragalus bhotanensis , A. adsurgens , Hedysarum tanguticum , Oxytropis ochrocephala ; LAMIACEAE : Dracocephalum heterophyllum , Thymus mongolicus ; MALVACEAE : Althaea rosea ; PAPAVERACEAE : Corydalis sp.; ROSACEAE : Rubus sp.