Updated list of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from the Spanish Pyrenees with notes on their decline and conservation status
Author
Ornosa, Concepción
Author
Torres, Félix
Author
Rúa, Pilar De La
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Zootaxa
2017
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Bombus campestris
(Panzer, 1801)
Eurosiberian species, mostly spread across mountains up to the Arctic Circle. In the Iberian Peninsula, it was found in the highlands of the northern half until
1700 m
, mainly in meadows and open areas of beech, oak, fir and pine trees on species of
Fabaceae
,
Asteraceae
,
Boraginaceae
,
Rosaceae
and
Scrophulariaceae (
Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004
)
. It is a social parasite mostly of
Thoracobombus
species:
B. pascuorum
,
B. humilis
,
B. ruderarius
,
B. sylvarum
and
B. muscorum
.
Recently we found an inner record (
Spain
:
Madrid
:
Pto. Fuenfría,
11-VIII-2015
,
1 male
, C. Ornosa leg., UCME), at
1797 m
, on
Rubus ulmifolius
Schott.
It was assessed as Least Concern in the IUCN Red List of European Bees (Rasmont
et al.
2015), but these authors estimated that
B. campestris
would suffer considerably from climatic warming due to its parasitic behaviour. It has not been found in present samplings in the Pyrenees (
Table 3
).