Bombus (Pyrobombus) taiwanensis Williams, Sung, Lin & Lu, 2022

Williams, Paul H., Dorji, Phurpa, Ren, Zongxin, Xie, Zhenghua & Orr, Michael, 2022, Bumblebees of the hypnorum-complex world-wide including two new near-cryptic species (Hymenoptera: Apidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 847, pp. 46-72 : 56

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1981

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EF8AD40D-0DD3-43F3-BE5A-93F0044C73FB

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7362344

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E28796-FFE9-FFC9-FE3D-E622FEE2F834

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Felipe

scientific name

Bombus (Pyrobombus) taiwanensis Williams, Sung, Lin & Lu, 2022
status

 

Bombus (Pyrobombus) taiwanensis Williams, Sung, Lin & Lu, 2022

Figs 1‒4 View Fig View Fig View Figs 3–38

[ Bombus sp. non descripta Chiu 1948: 71.]

[ Bombus (Pyrobombus) nr. hypnorum Starr, 1992: 149 View in CoL .]

Bombus (Pyrobombus) taiwanensis Williams et al., 2022: 438 View Cited Treatment . Holotype by original designation: ♀, Mt Hehuan , Taiwan (TFRI). Examined.

Diagnosis

Female

Distinguished by: clypeus in the central area smooth and shining with only a few large punctures, mostly spaced by much more than their own widths; ocello-ocular area with the inner eye margin mostly shining with few small punctures and the few larger, medium punctures forming a single row parallel to the eye margin; front, middle and hind leg basitarsi all with the exoskeleton lighter brown than for the tibiae; hair predominantly black but with metasomal T4‒6 a dull sandy-brown or pale orange.

Male Distinguished by: front, middle and hind leg basitarsi all with the integument lighter brown than the tibiae; genitalia with the gonostylus inner anterior (basal) projection separated from the gonocoxa by less than the breadth of the recurved hook of the penis-valve head.

Material examined

Material sequenced or examined

CHINA – Taiwan • 1 ♀ (worker); Nantou Hsien , Tsuifeng [ Cuifeng ]; 24.1060° N, 121.1988° E; alt. 2300 m; 23‒25 Jun. 1983; K.S. Lin and C. Lin leg.; BOLD-1550A06-TWN ; PW GoogleMaps 1 ♂; Hualien Hsien, Tayuling ; 23.9767° N, 121.5206° E; alt. 2560 m; 9‒16 Jun. 1980; K.S. Lin and B.H. Chen leg.; BOLD- 1550A07-TWN ; PW GoogleMaps .

Other material sequenced

GenBank: MZ831884 View Materials , MZ831885 View Materials , MZ831886 View Materials , MZ831887 View Materials , MZ831891 View Materials , MZ831892 View Materials .

Distribution

Endemic to the mountains of Taiwan, where it is extremely rare, at elevations of 2300‒3100 m ( Williams et al. 2022).

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Apidae

Genus

Bombus

Loc

Bombus (Pyrobombus) taiwanensis Williams, Sung, Lin & Lu, 2022

Williams, Paul H., Dorji, Phurpa, Ren, Zongxin, Xie, Zhenghua & Orr, Michael 2022
2022
Loc

Bombus (Pyrobombus)

Starr C. K. 1992: 149
1992
Loc

Bombus sp.

Chiu S. C. 1948: 71
1948
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