Bombus mendax latofasciatus Vogt, 1909

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 : 54

Bombus mendax latofasciatus Vogt, 1909

It is a mountain declining subspecies, spread in the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian Range, between 1400 and 2150 m ( Fig. 7 ) ( Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004, Santamaría et al. 2011). In the past, 69 individuals were recorded ( Ornosa 1984; Castro pers. comm.).

B. mendax latofasciatus is a very rare ( Fig. 3 ) and threatened subspecies ( Table 2 ), only collected once in the last eight years in the Pyrenees, in the National Park Aigüestortes and St. Maurici lake (Ornosa & Torres 2009) and in the Cantabrian Range (Picos de Europa), where 15 individuals were collected in July, 2008 (Asturias, the Bastards, Jou) ( Santamaría et al. 2011). It was assessed as Endangered (EN) in the IUCN Spanish Red List (Ornosa & Torres 2009).

New record. Spain: Lleida: Estany Ratera-Mirador track, 2200 m, 26- VII-2006, 1 worker, C. Ornosa leg., UCME.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Map showing historical locations (●) and recent records (*) of Bombus mendax latofasciatus.

FIGURE 7. Distribution (in meters) range of the bumblebee species and subspecies observed in contemporary samplings (grey rectangles) in the Pyrenees compared with the known altitude distribution (black bars) from historical data.