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Subgenus Pyrobombus (Bombus Subgenus Pyrobombus)
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caliginosus or vosnesenskii (Bombus caliginosus or vosnesenskii)
Photo#855193
Copyright © 2013
Anne Sylvia
A Big Black Bug which was hovering over flowers -
Bombus
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA
October 13, 2013
Size: 3cm
this bug had a scary bloody tongue. it was too fast, and looked as if it was eating the flowers.
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Contributed by
Anne Sylvia
on 15 October, 2013 - 12:51am
Last updated 3 January, 2016 - 4:06pm
Moved
Moved from
Yellow-faced Bumble Bee
.
The nearly identical
Bombus caliginosus
also appears in this area, and can rarely be told apart by photographs; as a result, I've moved the image to this either/or species page. For info on this topic, look
here
or
here
and note that
B. caliginosus
has yellow hairs on sternite 4, shown in this specimen but very difficult to tell in live images:
Sorry to bump you back to subgenus!
(also edited the image to fix location data)
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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers
, 3 January, 2016 - 4:05pm
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Thanks Kelsey
Thanks for this correction and corrections elsewhere on other Bombus images!
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Keng-Lou James Hung
, 3 January, 2016 - 6:14pm
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No problemo! Glad to help :^
No problemo! Glad to help :^)
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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers
, 3 January, 2016 - 7:03pm
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Moved
Moved from
Halictini
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Keng-Lou James Hung
, 15 October, 2013 - 9:53am
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Keng-Lou James Hung
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