Bombus parthenius Richards DISTRIBUTION: Oriental Region. Bombus picipes Richards NOMENCLATURE: With Psithyrus regarded as being a subgenus of the genus Bombus (Williams, 1991 [pdf], 1995 [pdf]), B. pratorum subsp. flavus Friese (1905) becomes a junior secondary homonym in Bombus of Psithyrus campestris var. flavus Pérez (1884) (deemed to be subspecific, see ICZN, 1999: Article 45.6), and therefore B. flavus Friese is invalid (ICZN, 1999: Article 57). For this species, the oldest available name of which I am aware is B. parthenius var. picipes Richards, 1934 (deemed to be subspecific, see ICZN, 1999: Article 45.6), which becomes the valid name, B. picipes. The only publications using the name B. flavus Friese since 1950 of which I am aware are by Sakagami (1972), Ito (1993) and Yao & Luo (1997), so this change of valid name is not a serious disruption of common usage. DISTRIBUTION: Oriental, Palaearctic Regions. Bombus pressus (Frison) TAXONOMIC STATUS: The peculiar B. pressus was first recognised to be a species of the subgenus Pyrobombus by Cameron et al. (2007 [pdf]). DISTRIBUTION: Oriental Region. Bombus rotundiceps Friese DISTRIBUTION: Oriental Region. Bombus sandersoni Franklin DISTRIBUTION: W Nearctic, E Nearctic Regions. Bombus sitkensis Nylander DISTRIBUTION: W Nearctic Region. Bombus sonani (Frison) DISTRIBUTION: Oriental Region. Bombus subtypicus (Skorikov) DISTRIBUTION: Palaearctic Region, Oriental border. Bombus vandykei (Frison) DISTRIBUTION: W Nearctic Region. Bombus asiaticus Morawitz TAXONOMIC STATUS: Several of these nominal taxa have been treated as separate species. B. heicens, B. huangcens, B. flavicollis, and B. baichengensis are morphologically closely similar to B. asiaticus and differ only in details of the colour pattern. In the case of the yellow unbanded colour form and the grey banded colour form in Kashmir, there is evidence of interbreeding, with many recombinant individuals (Williams, 1991 [pdf]). Aside from differences in colour pattern, these taxa are similar in morphology with a range of variation (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, Palaearctic Regions. Bombus morawitzi Radoszkowski DISTRIBUTION: Palaearctic Region. Bombus niveatus Kriechbaumer TAXONOMIC STATUS: B. niveatus and B. vorticosus have been regarded both as conspecific (Schmiedeknecht, 1883; Handlirsch, 1888; Dalla Torre, 1896; Schulz, 1906; Williams, 1991 [pdf]) and as separate species (e.g. Skorikov, 1922a; Pittioni, 1938; Tkalcu, 1969; Reinig, 1981; Rasmont, 1983). DISTRIBUTION: Palaearctic Region. Bombus oberti Morawitz DISTRIBUTION: Palaearctic Region. Bombus saltuarius är en biart som först beskrevs av Skorikov 1923. Den ingår i släktet humlor och familjen långtungebin. Inga underarter finns listade.
UtbredningArten förekommer främst i norra Ryssland från norra Uralbergen och Archangelsk oblast till Sajanbergen, men även i Kina i provinsen Gansu.
Mycket litet är känt om arten, till viss del beroende på att stora delar av dess utbredningsområde tidigare varit upptaget av Gulag och därför stängt för utomstående.
TaxonomiArtens taxonomiska ställning är omstridd; vissa auktoriteter betraktar den som en synonym till Bombus tichenkoi Bombus sushkini is een vliesvleugelig insect uit de familie bijen en hommels (Apidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1931 door Skorikov. |