Species Bombus insularis - Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumble Bee

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Season · Remarks · Print References · Internet References

Anthophora sp. ?? - Bombus insularis - male

Bombus sp. 4 - Bombus insularis - female

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 Psithyrus)

Species insularis (Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumble Bee)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

formerly placed in Psithyrus, which is now considered a subgenus of Bombus - see links below

Range

Although widespread in Canada and the Northern United States, it has been rare in collections for study. Specimens have been identified only from New Brunswick and New York.

Season

May to August.

Remarks

Page creation based on Adalbert Goertz's identification and John Ascher's confirmation of this image

Print References

Michener, Charles D. 2007. (2nd ed.) The Bees of the World. 1,016 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press. [advertised here]

Internet References

12 pinned adult images (discoverlife.org)

common name reference; PDF doc (Committee on Common Names of Insects, Entomological Society of America)

discussion on subgenus Psithyrus plus list and distribution of world species (Natural History Museum, UK)

world bee genera plus synonyms and subgenera; list based on Michener, 2000 (Doug Yanega, U. of California at Riverside)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 15 February, 2007 - 11:55pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 18 July, 2009 - 1:18pm

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