Bombus (Megabombus) sushkini (Skorikov)

An, Jiandong, Williams, Paul H., Zhou, Bingfeng, Miao, Zhengying & Qi, Wenzhong, 2011, The bumblebees of Gansu, Northwest China (Hymenoptera, Apidae), Zootaxa 2865, pp. 1-36 : 10

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.204407
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5622977
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scientific name	Bombus (Megabombus) sushkini (Skorikov)
status	s. l.

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11. Bombus (Megabombus) sushkini (Skorikov) View in CoL s. l.

( Fig. 14 View FIGURE 4 – 21 )

Hortobombus sushkini Skorikov, 1931:235 , paralectotype queen ( Podbolotskaya, 1988:117) ZISP examined. Kazakhstan. Bombus (Hortobombus) hortorum View in CoL ssp. morawitzianus Pittioni, 1939:244 View in CoL (not of Popov, 1931:183 = B. morawitzianus (Popov)) View in CoL , lectotype queen ( Tkalců, 1974a:52) BMNH examined. Synomymised with Megabombus sushkini (Skorikov) by Tkalců (1974a). Mongolia.

Material examined. 13 queens 27 workers 3 males (IAB).

Distribution in Gansu. Common at medium to high elevations of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in the southwest and northwestern Qilianshan mountains, rare at medium elevations of the western mountains ( Fig. 14 View FIGURE 4 – 21 ); 13 localities between 2148 and 3490 m (IAB).

Distribution in China. Neimenggu, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai (IAB).

Forage plants. ASTERACEAE : Arctium lappa , Saussurea sp.; FABACEAE : Oxytropis ochrocephala ; LAMI- ACEAE: Caryopteris incana , Dracocephalum heterophyllum ; RANUNCULACEAE : Aconitum gymnandrum , Clematis tangutica ; SCROPHULARIACEAE : Pedicularis kansuensis .