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An Early Miocene bumble bee from northern Bohemia (Hymenoptera, Apidae).


ABSTRACT: 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. Bombus trophoniussp. n., 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 by symplesiomorphies. The age of the fossil is in rough accordance with divergence estimations for Cullumanobombus.

SUBMITTER: Prokop J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5674177 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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An Early Miocene bumble bee from northern Bohemia (Hymenoptera, Apidae).

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]

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