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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 Pyrobombus (Bombus Subgenus Pyrobombus) » Cockerell's Bumble Bee (Bombus cockerelli)

Species Bombus cockerelli - Cockerell's Bumble Bee

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References
Bombus cockerelli - female Bombus cockerelli - female Bombus cockerelli - female Bombus cockerelli - female Cockerell's Bumble Bee - Bombus cockerelli Cockerell's Bumble Bee - Bombus cockerelli Cockerell's Bumble Bee - Bombus cockerelli
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees)
Family Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)
Subfamily Apinae (Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees)
Tribe Bombini (Bumble Bees)
Genus Bombus (Bumble Bees)
No Taxon (Subgenus Pyrobombus)
Species cockerelli (Cockerell's Bumble Bee)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Species status recently reevaluated by Yanega (2013). Previously it was quite obscure and thought by some to be a possible synonym or subspecies of the eastern species B. vagans.
Explanation of Names
Bombus (Pyrobombus) cockerelli Franklin, 1913
Size
rather small
Identification
Color patterns resembles some populations of the eastern B. sandersoni with a black interalar band
Range
Very narrowly distributed in the mountains of New Mexico (Yanega 2013)
Food
Has been collected on Carduus as recorded in the Hosts section of its Discover Life species page.
Remarks
The known distribution covers only about 777 km2, giving it the smallest known range of any bumblebee in the world. Most of the known specimens are late-season queens and males remain unknown, suggesting that the species may nest and forage in areas of dense forest. (Yanega 2013)
Print References
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 32: 289–314.
Cockerell, T.D.A. and W. Porter. 1899. Contributions from the New Mexico Biological Station - VII. Observations on bees, with descriptions of new genera and species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 4: 403–421. CrossRef
Franklin, H.J. 1913. The Bombidae of the New World. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 38(1912): 177–486.
Yanega. D. 2013. The Status of Cockerell's Bumblebee, Bombus (Pyrobombus) cockerelli Franklin, 1913 (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Southwestern Entomologist 38(3): 517-522. BioOne
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 17 October, 2013 - 6:29am
Additional contributions by John S. Ascher
Last updated 15 February, 2014 - 1:25am

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