Bombus vestalis obenbergeri (May, 1944)

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 : 54-55

Bombus vestalis obenbergeri (May, 1944)

B. vestalis obenbergeri is quite common in inland Spanish areas and has been recently found in the Pyrenees (two individuals), at 1730 and 2120 m of altitude ( Fig. 7 ), on Acinos alpinum (L.) and Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. In the past, 19 individuals ( Table 2 ) were recorded there ( Ornosa 1984, Castro 1989, 1996).

This Iberian subspecies was assessed as Least Concern in the Red Book of Andalusian Invertebrates (Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2008).

New records. Spain: Girona: La Molina, ski resort, 9- VII-2015, 1 male, F. Torres leg., UCME ; Nùria , Bosc de la Verge, 10- VII-2015, 1 male., C. Ornosa leg., UCME .

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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.