Bombus humilis paraurantiacus (Reinig, 1976)

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 : 59

Bombus humilis paraurantiacus (Reinig, 1976)

Its dispersal is restricted to the northern half of the Iberian Peninsula, with an elevational distribution between 500 and 2000 m ( Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004).

At present, it has been collected between 914 and 1458 m ( Fig. 7 ). This subspecies is rare and scarce ( Table 2 ). New records. Spain: Huesca: Biescas, 10-VIII-2014, 3 males, E. Acosta leg., UMU; Lleida: Artiga de Lin , 15-VIII-2 012, 1 male, P. De la Rúa leg., UMU.

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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.