Bombus flavidus lutescens (Pérez, 1890), Perez, 1890

Ornosa, Concepción, Torres, Félix & Rúa, Pilar De La, 2017, Updated list of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from the Spanish Pyrenees with notes on their decline and conservation status, Zootaxa 4237 (1), pp. 41-77 : 55

Bombus flavidus lutescens (Pérez, 1890)

It is spread mainly in the Pyrenees (Ornosa & Torres 2009), although there is a quote from the Cantabrian Range ( Obeso 1992). It has an orophilous tendency ( Fig. 7 ), between 1800 and 2520 m.

The last samples ( Fig. 4 ) were collected in a wet alpine pasture in a peatland in the upper limit of a fir-pine area with Abies alba , Pinus sylvestris L. and Pinus uncinata , with scattered patches of creeping juniper scrub, cranberry and heather, among others, also on Vaccinium myrtillus and Trifolium pratense at 2020 m.

New record. Spain: Lleida: Estany Ratera track, 26- VII-2006, 2 males, C. Ornosa leg., UCME.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Map showing historical locations (●) and recent records (*) of Bombus flavidus lutescens.

FIGURE 7. Distribution (in meters) range of the bumblebee species and subspecies observed in contemporary samplings (grey rectangles) in the Pyrenees compared with the known altitude distribution (black bars) from historical data.