Bombus mongolensis, 2011

Williams, Paul H., An, Jiandong & Huang, Jiaxing, 2011, The bumblebees of the subgenus Subterraneobombus: integrating evidence from morphology and DNA barcodes (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163 (3), pp. 813-862 : 840

BOMBUS MONGOLENSIS WILLIAMS SP. NOV.

( FIGS 10 , 29, 72, 73, 101, 102 )

[ Bombus (Subterraneobombus) tschitscherini Radoszkowski [cited as Behr]; Williams et al., 2009: 139 male only, misidentification.]

Note ( mongolensis ). The usual neo-latin adjective for inhabitants of Mongolia is mongolicus (M. Alonso- Zarazaga, pers. comm.). This name is preoccupied by the senior homonyms: Bombus hortorum var. mongolicus Friese, 1916: 110 (? = B. diversus Smith ); Lapidariobombus alagesianus ssp. mongolicus Skorikov, 1931: 226 (= B. keriensis Morawitz ); and Bombus magnus Rasse mongolicus Krüger, 1954: 276 [not infrasubspecific after Tkalců, 1974b: 31; = B. lucorum (Linnaeus) complex]. Therefore, the name mongolensis is proposed (following previous usage of the neologism, e.g. Halictus rubicundus var. mongolensis Blüthgen, 1936 ) to convey the current knowledge of this species as an endemic of Mongolia.

Figures

Figures 7–10. Global distribution of material examined (grey spots) and successfully sequenced (black spots) for Bombus personatus, and for the species of the melanurus group. The inset scatter plots show activity by phenology (x-axis: day of the year, letters refer to months) and elevation (y-axis: metres).

Figures 101, 102. Photographs of Bombus mongolensis sp. nov. from the left lateral aspect with scale bars in mm: 101, worker (DB#1934, BOLD 1550B04-1934-MON), body length 15 mm; 102, holotype male (DB#0169, BOLD B3262-D05), body length 19 mm.