List of bumblebee species
The list presented here is a checklist of world bumblebees[1] (Tribe Bombini) based on the Bombus phylogeny presented by Cameron et al (2007)[2] and grouped by subgenus following the revision of Williams et al (2008).[3] The bumblebee fossil record extends back to the Late Eocene in North America and England with the most diversity of fossils found during the Miocene. The fossil species were discussed and revised by Dehon et al (2019).[4]
Genus Bombus[]
Subgenus Alpigenobombus[]
- Bombus angustus
- Bombus breviceps
- Bombus genalis
- Bombus grahami
- Bombus kashmirensis
- Bombus nobilis
- Bombus wurflenii
Subgenus Alpinobombus[]
- Bombus alpinus
- Bombus balteatus – Golden-belted Bumble Bee
- Bombus hyperboreus
- Bombus kirbiellus
- Bombus neoboreus
- Bombus polaris
Subgenus Bombias[]
- Bombus auricomus – Black-and-gold Bumble Bee
- Bombus confusus
- Bombus nevadensis – Nevada Bumble Bee
Subgenus Bombus (sensu stricto)[]
Bombus cryptarum
Bombus lucorum
- Bombus affinis – Rusty-patched Bumble Bee
- Bombus cryptarum – Cryptic Bumble Bee
- Bombus franklini – Franklin's Bumblebee (extremely rare or possibly extinct)
- Bombus hypocrita
- Bombus ignitus
- Bombus lucorum – White-tailed Bumblebee
- Bombus magnus – Northern white-tailed bumblebee
- Bombus occidentalis[5] – Western Yellow-banded Bumble Bee
- Bombus terrestris – Buff-tailed Bumblebee or Large Earth Bumblebee
- Bombus terricola[5] – Yellow-banded Bumble Bee
Subgenus Cullumanobombus[]
- Bombus brachycephalus
- Bombus crotchii – Crotch's Bumble Bee
- Bombus cullumanus – Cullum's Humble-bee or Cullum's Bumblebee
- Bombus fraternus – Southern Plains Bumble Bee
- Bombus funebris
- Bombus griseocollis – Brown-belted Bumble Bee
- Bombus haueri
- Bombus macgregori
- Bombus morrisoni
- † - Middle- Late Miocene, , Euboea, Greece[4]
- †Bombus randeckensis[4]
- Bombus rufocinctus – Red-belted Bumble Bee
- Bombus semenoviellus
- †Bombus trophonius[6]
Subgenus Kallobombus[]
Bombus soroeensis subsp. proteus
- Bombus soroeensis – Broken-belted bumblebee
Subgenus Megabombus[]
- Bombus argillaceus
- Bombus consobrinus
- Bombus hortorum – (small) garden bumblebee
- Bombus irisanensis
- (extremely rare or possibly extinct)
- Bombus ruderatus – large garden bumblebee
Subgenus Melanobombus[]
- [7]
- †Bombus cerdanyensis - Late Miocene, Bellver de Cerdanya, Spain[8][4]
- Bombus erzurumensis[9]
- [7]
- Bombus eximius
- [7]
- Bombus lapidarius – Red-tailed bumblebee
- [7]
- [7]
- Bombus sichelii
- [7]
Subgenus Mendacibombus[]
†Bombus beskonakensis fossil
- †Bombus beskonakensis (Miocene, , Turkey)
- Bombus mendax
Subgenus Orientalibombus[]
Subgenus †Paraelectrobombus[]
holotype
- † - Late Oligocene/Early Miocene, , Ankara, Turkey[4]
Subgenus Psithyrus[]
Bombus barbutellus
Bombus campestris
Bombus rupestris
- Bombus ashtoni – Ashton Cuckoo Bumble Bee
- Bombus barbutellus – Barbut's Cuckoo-bee
- Bombus bellardii
- Bombus bohemicus – Gypsy's Cuckoo Bumble Bee
- Bombus branickii
- Bombus campestris
- Bombus chinensis
- Bombus citrinus – Lemon Cuckoo Bumble Bee
- Bombus coreanus
- Bombus cornutus
- Bombus expolitus
- Bombus ferganicus
- Bombus fernaldae – Fernald's Cuckoo Bumble Bee
- Bombus flavidus
- Bombus insularis – Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumble Bee
- Bombus maxillosus
- Bombus monozonus
- Bombus morawitzianus
- Bombus norvegicus
- Bombus novus
- Bombus perezi
- Bombus quadricolor
- Bombus rupestris
- Bombus skorikovi
- Bombus suckleyi – Suckley's Cuckoo Bumble Bee
- Bombus sylvestris – Forest Cuckoo Bumble Bee
- Bombus tibetanus
- Bombus turneri
- Bombus variabilis – Variable Cuckoo Bumble Bee
- Bombus vestalis – Vestal Cuckoo Bumble Bee
Subgenus Pyrobombus[]
Bombus pratorum (male)
Bombus jonellus
- Bombus bifarius – Two-form Bumble Bee
- Bombus bimaculatus – Two-spotted Bumble Bee
- Bombus caliginosus – Obscure Bumble Bee
- Bombus centralis[10] – Great Basin Bumble Bee
- Bombus cingulatus – Small Tree Bumble Bee
- Bombus cockerelli – Cockerell's Bumble Bee
- Bombus ephippiatus
- Bombus flavifrons[10] – Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee
- Bombus frigidus – Frigid Bumble Bee
- Bombus huntii – Hunt's Bumble Bee
- Bombus hypnorum – Tree Bumble Bee
- Bombus impatiens – Common Eastern Bumble Bee
- Bombus jonellus – Small Heath Bumble Bee
- Bombus lapponicus
- Bombus melanopygus[11] – Black-tailed Bumble Bee
- Bombus mixtus – Fuzzy-horned Bumble Bee
- Bombus monticola – Bilberry Bumble Bee
- Bombus perplexus – Perplexing Bumble Bee, Confusing Bumble Bee[12]
- Bombus pratorum – Early Bumble Bee
- Bombus pyrenaeus
- Bombus sandersoni – Sanderson Bumble Bee[12]
- Bombus sitkensis – Sitka Bumble Bee
- Bombus sylvicola – Forest Bumble Bee
- Bombus ternarius – Tricolored Bumble Bee, Orange-belted Bumble Bee
- Bombus vagans – Half-black Bumble Bee
- Bombus vancouverensis
- Bombus vandykei – Van Dyke's Bumble Bee
- Bombus vosnesenskii – Yellow-faced Bumble Bee
Subgenus []
Subgenus Subterraneobombus[]
Bombus pascuorum
- Bombus amurensis
- Bombus appositus – Mountain Bumble Bee
- Bombus borealis – Northern Amber Bumble Bee
- Bombus distinguendus
- Bombus mongolensis
- Bombus subterraneus – Short-haired Bumble Bee
Subgenus Thoracobombus[]
Bombus schrencki
Bombus sylvarum
Bombus veteranus
- Bombus armeniacus – Armenian Bumble Bee
- Bombus dahlbomii
- Bombus fervidus – Yellow Bumble Bee, Golden Northern Bumble Bee
- Bombus humilis – Brown-banded Carder Bee
- Bombus inexspectatus
- Bombus medius
- Bombus mesomelas
- Bombus mexicanus
- Bombus morio
- Bombus mucidus
- Bombus muscorum – Large Carder Bee or Moss Carder Bee
- Bombus pascuorum – Common Carder Bee
- Bombus pauloensis[13]
- Bombus pensylvanicus – American Bumble Bee
- Bombus pomorum – Apple Humble-bee
- Bombus pullatus
- (probably extinct)
- Bombus ruderarius – Red-shanked Carder Bee or Red-shanked Bumble Bee
- Bombus sonorus – Sonoran Bumble Bee
- Bombus steindachneri
- Bombus sylvarum – Shrill Carder Bee
- Bombus transversalis
- Bombus trinominatus
holotype male
Calyptapis florissantensis
paratype female
Subgenus incertae sedis[]
- † - Middle Miocene , Shandong Province, China[4]
- † - Late Miocene deposits, Czech Republic[4]
- † - Middle Miocene , Shandong Province, China[4]
- † - Middle Miocene , Shandong Province, China[4]
- † - Middle Miocene, Latah Formation, Washington, USA[4]
- † - Late Miocene, , Botchi River, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia[4]
Genus †Calyptapis[]
- †Calyptapis florissantensis - Late Eocene, Florissant Formation, Colorado
Genus †Oligobombus[]
- †Oligobombus cuspidatus - Late Eocene, Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK
References[]
- ^ Williams, P. H. (1998). "An annotated checklist of bumble bees with an analysis of patterns of description (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini)". Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Entomology Series. 67: 79–152.
- ^ Cameron, S. A.; Hines, H. M.; Williams, P. H. (2007). "A comprehensive phylogeny of the bumble bees (Bombus)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 91: 161–188. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00784.x.
- ^ Williams, P. H.; Cameron, S. A.; Hines, H. M.; Cederberg, B.; Rasmont, P. (2008). "A simplified subgeneric classification of the bumblebees (genus Bombus)" (PDF). Apidologie. 39: 1–29. doi:10.1051/apido:2007052. S2CID 3489618.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Dehon, M.; Engel, M.; Gérard, M.; Aytekin, A.; Ghisbain, G.; Williams, P.; Rasmont, P.; Michez, D. (2019). "Morphometric analysis of fossil bumble bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombini) reveals their taxonomic affinities". ZooKeys (891): 71–118. doi:10.3897/zookeys.891.32056 (inactive 28 February 2022).
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- ^ Prokop, J.; Dehon, M.; Michez, D.; Engel, M. S. (2017). "An Early Miocene bumble bee from northern Bohemia (Hymenoptera, Apidae)". ZooKeys (710): 43–63. doi:10.3897/zookeys.710.14714. PMC 5674177. PMID 29118643.
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- ^ Dehon, M.; Michez, D.; Nel, A.; Engel, M. S.; De Meulemeester, T. (2014). "Wing Shape of Four New Bee Fossils (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) Provides Insights to Bee Evolution". PLOS ONE. 9 (10): 1–16. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9j8865D. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0108865. PMC 4212905. PMID 25354170.
- ^ Pierre Rasmont; A. Murat Aytekin; Osman Kaftanoglu & Didier Flagothier. "Bombus (Melanobombus) erzurumensis (Özbek, 1990)". Université de Mons.
- ^ a b Bombus centralis and Bombus flavifrons are sometimes considered the same species.
- ^ Bombus melanopygus has two color forms, one of which was historically treated as a species: Bombus edwardsii.
- ^ a b Miller, Nathan G. (2010). The Bumble Bees of Algonquin Park: A Field Guide. Toronto: Toronto Entomologists' Association. pp.22.
- ^ Cameron, S. A.; Williams, P. H. (24 July 2002). "Phylogeny of bumble bees in the New World subgenus Fervidobombus (Hymenoptera: Apidae): congruence of molecular and morphological data" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 28 (3): 552–563. doi:10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00056-3. PMID 12927138. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
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