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 hortorum hortorum
(Linnaeus, 1761)
It is spread over the northern half of the Iberian Peninsula, preferably in wet areas, between 150 (in the north) and
2200 m
(
Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004
).
At present it has been collected in Pyrenean forestal and supraforestal temperate-oceanic grasslands, with patches of subalpine scrub and scree slopes, between 950 and
1992 m
(
Fig. 7
), on
Aconitum napellus
L.,
Aconitum vulparia
Reich.
,
Carduus acanthoides
L.,
Centaurea scabiosa
L.,
Cirsium vulgare
(Savi) Ten.
,
Cirsium acaule
(L.) Scop.,
Digitalis purpurea
L.,
Echium plantagineum
(Nox.)
,
Eryngium bourgatii
Gouan.
,
Gentiana lutea
L.,
Lotus corniculatus
L.,
Medicago sativa
L.
,
Melilotus officinalis
L.,
Mentha suaveolens
Ehrh.
,
Phlomis lychnitis
L.,
Prunella vulgaris
L.,
Reseda lutea
L.,
Silene acaulis
(L.) Jacq.,
Salvia pratensis
L.,
Trifolium pratense
L.
and
Vicia cracca
L.
According to the current data, this species exhibits a narrower elevational range (
Fig. 7
), but it is not regarded as being scarce or threatened (
Table 2
).
New
records.
Spain
:
Girona
:
Camprodón
, 23-
VII-2009, 2
queens,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
;
La Molina
, ski resort, 25-
VII-2009, 3
queens,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
;
Nùria
, 10-
VII-2015, 6
queens,
F. Torres
leg.,
UCME
;
Ribes de Freser
,
VI-2009, 3
queens,
P. Vargas
leg.,
UCME
;
La
Molina,
Roc
Blanco
, 25-
VII-2009, 1
worker,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
;
Tosas
pass, 4.
VII-2012, 1
queen,
P. Vargas
leg.,
UCME
;
Setcases
, 23-
VII-2009, 2
males,
3 workers
,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
.
Huesca
:
Baños de Benasque
, 14-
VII-2011, 3
workers,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
;
Ordesa
,
Gradas de Soaso
, 8-
VIII-2014, 2
workers,
P. Acosta
leg., UMU;
San Nicolás de Bujaruelo
,
9-VIII-
2 014, 1 male, 2 workers, P. De la Rúa leg., UMU; Selva de Oza, Aguas Tortas track, 10-
VII-2009, 2
workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME;
Vallibierna
, 15-
VII-2011, 2
workers,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
;
Selva de Oza
, 10-
VII-2009, 1
worker,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
;
Zuriza
, 5-
VI-2006, 3
workers; 11
-
VII-2009, 1
queen; C. Ornosa leg., UCME.
Lleida
:
Artiga de Lin
, 14-
VIII-2012, 1
male,
3 workers
,
P. De la Rúa
leg. UMU.
Baños de Tredós
, 10
-
VII-2014, 2
queens, 3 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME;
Baños de Tredós
slope, 10-
VII-2014, 1
queen,
F. Torres
leg.,
UCME
;
San Nicolás
chapel-Estany
Llebrera
, 9-
VII-2014, 1
worker;
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
;
Ruda
track, 8-
VII-2014, 2
workers;
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
;
Viella
, 13-
VIII-2012, 4
workers,
P. De la Rúa
leg., UMU.