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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Bumble Bees (Bombini) » Bumble Bees (Bombus) » Subgenus Thoracobombus (Bombus Subgenus Thoracobombus)
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Unidentified bombus - Bombus - male
Copyright © 2013 Nancy Partlow

Unidentified bombus - Bombus - Male
Tumwater, Thurston County, Washington, USA
September 6, 2013
Would like to know what species and sex this is. I thought perhaps Bombus californicus, but there are no black hairs on the abdomen.

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Contributed by Nancy Partlow on 12 September, 2013 - 12:25pm
Last updated 22 March, 2015 - 7:43pm

Moved
Moved from Bumble Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 22 March, 2015 - 7:43pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Thoracobombus.
… John S. Ascher, 11 September, 2014 - 10:09am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bumble Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 9 February, 2014 - 9:15am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Keng-Lou James Hung, 12 September, 2013 - 9:12pm login or register to post comments

not sure
Note that black hairs on putative californicus can be very inconspicuous, i.e. few, scattered, and hard to see even on specimens viewed under the microscope.
… John S. Ascher, 12 September, 2013 - 12:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Any chance this is a male app
Any chance this is a male appositus?
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 1 October, 2013 - 5:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Not an expected locality
Also in appositus the hind tibiae should have black pile
… John S. Ascher, 9 February, 2014 - 9:14am login or register to post comments

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