Bombus muscorum Roussy, 1937: 58

ENGEL, MICHAEL S., 2001, A Monograph Of The Baltic Amber Bees And Evolution Of The Apoidea (Hymenoptera), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2001 (259), pp. 1-1 : 1-

Bombus muscorum Roussy, 1937: 58 . Nomen praeoccupatum (nec Linnaeus, 1758).

COMMENTS: The name for this species must eventually be changed as it is a junior secondary homonym of Linnaeus’s Apis muscorum , which has been considered a valid species of Bombus for well over a century. The type was deposited in Roussy’s private collection and is now presumably lost. As mentioned above, this species is likely not a true bombine at all; Roussy (1937) himself considered this specimen to be representative of a solitary bee, while all bombines are known to be social, a fact universally known in Roussy’s time.