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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps » Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Honey, Bumble, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Bumble Bees (Bombini) » Bumble Bees (Bombus) » Subgenus Psithyrus (Bombus Subgenus Psithyrus) » Fernald Cuckoo Bumble Bee (Bombus fernaldae)

Species Bombus fernaldae - Fernald Cuckoo Bumble Bee

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Season · Internet References
Bumblebee - Bombus fernaldae - male Bumble Bee - Bombus fernaldae - male Bumble Bee - Bombus fernaldae Bombus? - Bombus fernaldae - male Bombus? - Bombus fernaldae - male Confusing Bumble Bee - Bombus fernaldae Confusing Bumble Bee - Bombus fernaldae Confusing Bumble Bee - Bombus fernaldae
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees)
Family Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)
Subfamily Apinae (Honey, Bumble, and Digger Bees)
Tribe Bombini (Bumble Bees)
Genus Bombus (Bumble Bees)
No Taxon (Subgenus Psithyrus)
Species fernaldae (Fernald Cuckoo Bumble Bee)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Used to be genus Psithyrus which is now considered a subgenus of Bombus.
Psithyrus tricolor
Psithyrus wheeleri
Explanation of Names
Author of species is (Franklin, 1911).
Range
Widespread in Canada and the United States, from Alaska to California in the West, New Brunswick to North Carolina in the East.
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Season
June to September.
Internet References
Discover Life
common name reference; PDF doc (Committee on Common Names of Insects, Entomological Society of America)
Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 15 November, 2007 - 9:12am
Additional contributions by Ted Kropiewnicki
Last updated 6 April, 2008 - 8:21pm

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