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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 Bombus  (Bombus Subgenus Bombus ) » Yellowbanded Bumble Bee (Bombus terricola)

Species Bombus terricola - Yellowbanded Bumble Bee

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Internet References
Bee to ID please. - Bombus terricola - female Bee to ID please. - Bombus terricola - female Bombus terricola queen? - Bombus terricola Bombus terricola queen? - Bombus terricola Yellowbanded Bumble Bee - Bombus terricola Which Bumble Bee Please? - Bombus terricola Western Bumblebee? - Bombus terricola - female yellow-banded bumble bee - Bombus terricola - male
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 Bombus )
Species terricola (Yellowbanded Bumble Bee)
Other Common Names
by extension, the western subspecies (occidentalis) could be called Western Yellowbanded Bumble Bee
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
eastern subspecies is B. t. terricola
western subspecies is B. t. occidentalis
see comments by John Ascher here
Size
queen: body length 17-19 mm
male: 13-17 mm
worker: 9-14 mm
Identification
see discoverlife.org for detailed descriptions of queen and male; worker resembles queen in general, but pubescence relatively longer
Range
B. t. terricola occurs in eastern North America
B. t. occidentalis occurs in western North America
see comments by John Ascher here
Season
April to October
Internet References
24 pinned adult images plus detailed description of queen, worker, male, distribution, seasonality, flower records, similar species (discoverlife.org)
discussion of taxonomic status of terricola and occidentalis (Paul Williams, Natural History Museum, UK)
common name reference; PDF doc [Yellowbanded Bumble Bee] (Committee on Common Names of Insects, Entomological Society of America)
Discover Life
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 11 July, 2005 - 2:21pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod
Last updated 31 December, 2007 - 12:10pm

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