Bombus vancouverensis

Bombus vancouverensis
Bombus vancouverensis nearcticus, Utah, 2018
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Genus: Bombus
Subgenus: Pyrobombus
Species:
B. vancouverensis
Binomial name
Bombus vancouverensis

Bombus vancouverensis, the Vancouver Island Bumblebee,[2] is a common species of eusocial bumblebee of the subgenus Pyrobombus. B. vancouverensis inhabits mountainous regions of western North America, where it has long been considered as a synonym of Bombus bifarius, and essentially all of the literature on bifarius refers instead to vancouverensis.[3] B. vancouverensis has been identified as one of the two species of bumblebee observed to use pheromones in kin recognition. The other is the frigid bumblebee, Bombus frigidus.[4]

  1. ^ Cresson, E.T. (1878). "Descriptions of new species of North American bees". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: 181–221.
  2. ^ [1], iNaturalist, , Vancouver Island Bumble Bee Bombus vancouverensis vancouverensis.
  3. ^ Ghisbain, G.; Lozier, J.; Rahman, S.; Ezray, B; Tian, L. (2020). "Substantial genetic divergence and lack of recent gene flow support cryptic speciation in a colour polymorphic bumble bee (Bombus bifarius) species complex". Syst. Entomol. 45 (3): 635–652. doi:10.1111/syen.12419.
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