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SUBMITTER: Prokop J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5674177 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Prokop Jakub J Dehon Manuel M Michez Denis D Engel Michael S MS
ZooKeys 20171019 710
A new species of fossil bumble bee (Apinae: Bombini) is described and figured from Early Miocene (Burdigalian) deposits of the Most Basin at the Bílina Mine, Czech Republic. <i>Bombus trophonius</i><b>sp. n.</b>, is placed within the subgenus Cullumanobombus Vogt and distinguished from the several species groups therein. The species is apparently most similar to the Nearctic B. (Cullumanobombus) rufocinctus Cresson, the earliest-diverging species within the clade and the two may be related only ...[more]