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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 Cullumanobombus (Bombus Subgenus Cullumanobombus) » Brownbelted Bumble Bee (Bombus griseocollis)

Species Bombus griseocollis - Brownbelted Bumble Bee

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Internet References
Brownbelted Bumble Bee - Bombus griseocollis - female Bee - Bombus griseocollis - female Bumble Bee - Bombus griseocollis - male Bumble bee - Bombus griseocollis - 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 Cullumanobombus)
Species griseocollis (Brownbelted Bumble Bee)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Bombus separatus
Bombus mormonorum
described in 1773 by De Geer, who originally placed it in genus Apis
Explanation of Names
The common name refers to the brown belt across the abdomen.
Author: DeGeer, 1773)
Size
queen: body length 21-23 mm
male: 15-19 mm
worker: 9.5-18 mm
Identification
Diagnostic characters include black wings, black head, low position of ocelli, short hairs on thorax, and brown hair at base of T2. See detailed description of queen and male at discoverlife.org
Range
Quebec and Maine to Florida, and widely distributed in the west (except the southwest)

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Season
February to August
Internet References
24 live and pinned adult images
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 Troy Bartlett on 27 April, 2004 - 6:21pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod, John S. Ascher, ceiseman
Last updated 2 February, 2010 - 4:10pm

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