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Species Bombus rufocinctus - Redbelted Bumble Bee

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Is this B. rufocinctus? - Bombus rufocinctus

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 Cullumanobombus)

Species rufocinctus (Redbelted Bumble Bee)

Explanation of Names

common name refers to the reddish band across the abdomen

Size

queen: body length 16-18 mm

male: 12-13

worker: 11-12.5

Identification

see detailed description of queen, worker, male at discoverlife.org

Range

From the Pacific coast to Michigan, Quebec, and Maine

Season

July to October

Remarks

page creation based on John Ascher's identification of this image

Internet References

18 pinned adult images plus detailed description of queen, worker, male, distribution, seasonality (discoverlife.org)

common name reference; PDF doc (Committee on Common Names of Insects, Entomological Society of America)

link to photos of male genitalia (Natural History Museum, UK)

Discover Life

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 6 July, 2005 - 5:51pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod
Last updated 31 December, 2007 - 12:26pm

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