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aerograf ( 07/02/2017 )

Bombus flavescens Smith
flavescens Smith, 1852a:45, examined
mearnsi Ashmead, 1905:959, examined
?baguionensis Cockerell, 1920:631, examined
tahanensis Pendlebury, 1923:65, examined
?rufoflavus Pendlebury, 1923:66, examined

TAXONOMIC STATUS: Several of these nominal taxa have been treated as separate species. B. rufoflavus [Peninsular Malaysia] and B. baguionensis [Philippines] are particularly distinct in colour pattern. They may prove to be separate species, but from the material available from a few sites, they appear to be closely similar in morphology to B. flavescens (Williams, 1991 [pdf]). Until more evidence to the contrary is available from critical studies of patterns of variation, I shall treat them as parts of a single variable species.

DISTRIBUTION: Oriental Region, Sumatran border.

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