Bombus hypnorum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cornalba, Maurizio, Quaranta, Marino, Selis, Marco, Flaminio, Simone, Gamba, Sirio, Mei, Maurizio, Bonifacino, Marco, Cappellari, Andree, Catania, Roberto, Niolu, Pietro, Tempesti, Stefano & Biella, Paolo, 2024, Exploring the hidden riches: Recent remarkable faunistic records and range extensions in the bee fauna of Italy (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Anthophila), Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. 116014-116014 : 116014

Bombus hypnorum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Paolo Biella ; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: C1990E9B-2990-552D-BF31-0BC1919846B2; Location : countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Abruzzo ; county: Teramo ; municipality: Isola del Gran Sasso ; verbatimElevation: 2095 m; verbatimLatitude: 42.4511; verbatimLongitude: 13.6223; Identification : identifiedBy: Paolo Biella; Event: eventDate: 2020-06- 30 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Marco Bonifacino; sex: 1 female; occurrenceID: 78C5BD47-B478-5F73-94D6-A9D566AA14CC; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Abruzzo; county: L'Aquila; municipality: Campotosto; verbatimElevation: 1730 m; verbatimLatitude: 42.5729; verbatimLongitude: 13.39; Identification: identifiedBy: Marco Bonifacino; Event: eventDate: 2021-06-15; Record Level: collectionCode: MBC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Marco Bonifacino; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: 7A77B5CC-DDB7-58B3-A5A4-C9FD8BB12E4F; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Abruzzo; county: L'Aquila; municipality: Barrea; verbatimElevation: 1160 m; verbatimLatitude: 41.7456; verbatimLongitude: 13.9691; Identification: identifiedBy: Marco Bonifacino; Event: eventDate: 2022-06-13; Record Level: collectionCode: MBC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Maurizio Mei; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: 4791DC97-7192-5743-A078-3487CBA4A6DF; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Abruzzo; county: L'Aquila; municipality: Cappadocia; locality: road to Fonte Maiura; verbatimElevation: 1130 m; verbatimLatitude: 41.9991; verbatimLongitude: 13.2854; Identification: identifiedBy: Maurizio Mei; Event: eventDate: 2021-08-02; Record Level: collectionCode: MEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Maurizio Mei; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: 259C8371-AAC5-59A0-A0E1-CFEA32E360CF; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Abruzzo; county: L'Aquila; municipality: Cappadocia; locality: Camporotondo, La Ceria; verbatimElevation: 1540 m; verbatimLatitude: 41.9713; verbatimLongitude: 13.29; Identification: identifiedBy: Maurizio Mei; Event: eventDate: 2021-08-06; Record Level: collectionCode: MEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Pierfilippo Cerretti; sex: 1 female; occurrenceID: 4E6A1CEC-C852-5F3A-B92E-007D09EE16F5; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Abruzzo; county: Teramo; municipality: Fano Adriano; locality: Incodaro; verbatimElevation: 1400 m; verbatimLatitude: 42.5123; verbatimLongitude: 13.4735; Identification: identifiedBy: Maurizio Mei; Event: eventDate: 2022-06-23; Record Level: collectionCode: MZUR

Notes

The specimens from Campotosto, Barrea, Camporotondo and Fano Adriano were collected in grassy clearings at the edge of beech forest. The male from Cappadocia was collected on Cirsium sp., along a road running through orchards and open mixed woodland. Prior to our records, B. hypnorum was known to occur throughout the Italian Alps and adjacent foothills, in the Northern Apennines in the Provinces of Genova (verified records in GBIF), Pavia, Piacenza (M. Cornalba personal observations), Massa Carrara ( Intoppa et al. 1995), Lucca (P. Biella, personal observations) and Forlì-Cesena ( Quaranta et al. 2004), perhaps in the Provinces of Pisa and Firenze ( Rossi 1790) and, furthermore, in scattered localities in the plains of Lombardia, Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia ( Pensa 1832, Intoppa et al. 1995, Barbattini et al. 2006) M. Cornalba personal observations, verified records in GBIF and iNaturalist). The occurrence of the species throughout Abruzzo, over 200 km from the nearest Italian record, constitutes a significant extension of the range of B. hypnorum and raises several questions, all related to each other. Is B. hypnorum a recent arrival in Abruzzo or was it just overlooked before? Does the species occur elsewhere in the Apennines, particularly between the Northern Apennines and Abruzzo? The ecological conditions prevailing throughout this portion of the mountain chain would seem conducive to the presence of B. hypnorum . Finally, what is the origin of the Abruzzo population?