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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps » Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Honey, Bumble, Long-horned, Orchid, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Bumble Bees (Bombini) » Bumble Bees (Bombus) » Subgenus Thoracobombus (Bombus Subgenus Thoracobombus) » Sonoran Bumble Bee (Bombus sonorus)

Species Bombus sonorus - Sonoran Bumble Bee

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Season · Print References · Internet References
Bumble Bee in Raspberries - Bombus sonorus - female Which Bumblebee - Bombus sonorus Bombus sonorus? - Bombus sonorus Bombus sonorus - male Sonoran Bumble Bee - Bombus sonorus - female Sonoran Bumble Bee - Bombus sonorus - female Sonoran Bumble Bee - Bombus sonorus - female largest-bee-I've-ever-seen on Encelia - Bombus sonorus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees)
Family Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)
Subfamily Apinae (Honey, Bumble, Long-horned, Orchid, and Digger Bees)
Tribe Bombini (Bumble Bees)
Genus Bombus (Bumble Bees)
No Taxon (Subgenus Thoracobombus)
Species sonorus (Sonoran Bumble Bee)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Author: Say, 1837
Often treated as a subspecies of Bombus pensylvanicus
Range
CA-TX, WY, UT / southern Mex.
Season
Feb-Oct (BG data)
Print References
Warriner, M.D. (In press). Bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of Texas: historical distributions. Southwestern Naturalist.
Internet References
Info - Map - Discover Life
Bumblebees of Texas - Michael D. Warriner
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 10 February, 2007 - 8:55pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, John S. Ascher
Last updated 9 May, 2012 - 11:40am

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