Honshuensis

Bombus honshuensis (Tkalcu) honshuensis

(Tkalcu, 1968a:47 [Megabombus]) 2 names

TAXONOMIC STATUS: B. honshuensis and B. schrencki have allopatric distributions in northern Japan (Sakagami & Ishikawa, 1969; Ito & Munakata, 1979: fig. 6; Ito, 1993), with B. honshuensis being possibly a peripheral population of B. schrencki. The two taxa are closely similar, although despite variation in morphology, apparently consistent differences have been described (Tkalcu, 1968a; Sakagami & Ishikawa, 1972).

DISTRIBUTION: Japanese Region.