Bombus (Sibricobombus) asiaticus Morawitz, 1875

Raina, Rifat H., Parrey, Aejaz H., Chandra, Kailash & Khan, Sajad A., 2021, New distributional records of Bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from Bangus Valley in North Kashmir of Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (2), pp. 261-267 : 263-264

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scientific name	Bombus (Sibricobombus) asiaticus Morawitz, 1875
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2. Bombus (Sibricobombus) asiaticus Morawitz, 1875 View in CoL ( Figure 4 View Figure 4 )

B. hortorum var. asiatica Morawitz in Fedtschenko, 1875: 4.

B. longiceps Smith, 1878: 168 View in CoL .

B. regeli Morawitz, 1880: 337 View in CoL .

Material examined: INDIA: Boud Bangus ( Big Bangus valley ), 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, 24.ix.2020, N 34°22′46.6″, E 074°21′45.0″, Alt. 3000 m- Coll. Parrey & Imran, NZC Regd. No. 10653/A; Lokut Bangus (Small Bangus valley), 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, 24.ix.2020, N 34°22′09.9″, E 074°22′54.6″, Alt. 2872 m respectively- Coll. Parrey & Imran, NZC Regd. No. 10638/A GoogleMaps .

Distribution within India: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Kashmir and Ladakh- ( Williams 1991, 2004; Saini et al., 2015).

Distribution worldwide: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China (including Tibet), Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Mongolia- ( Williams et al., 2010).

New Distribution: First time recorded from Bangus valley (Kupwara).

Host plants: Trifolium pretense L., Cicerbita alpine L.

3. Bombus (Bombus) jacobsoni Skorikov, 1912 ( Figure 5) Apis cryptarum Fabricius, 1775: 379 .

B. modestus Cresson, 1863: 99 View in CoL .

B. modratus Cresson, 1863: 109 .

Material examined: INDIA: Boud Bangus ( Big Bangus valley ), 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, 22.ix.2020, N 34°22′45.3″, E 074°21′43.0″, Alt. 2944 m- Coll. Parrey & Imran, NZC Regd. No. 10646/A; Lokut Bangus (Small Bangus valley), 1 ♂, 6 ♀♀, 25.ix.2020, N 34°22′09.9″, E 074°22′54.6″, Alt. 2872 m respectively- Coll. Parrey & Imran, NZC Regd. No. 10655/A GoogleMaps .

Distribution within India: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Kashmir, Ladakh, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh- ( Williams, 1991, 2004; Saini et al., 2015).

Distribution worldwide: India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Europe, Canada, Japan, North Korea, China (including Tibet), Japan, Iran, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Russia- ( Williams, 2004; Williams et al., 2010).

New Distribution: First time recorded from Bangus valley (Kupwara).

Host plants: Artemisia absinthium L

References

Cresson, E. T. 1863. List of the North American species of Bombus and Apathus. Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, 2: 83 - 116.

Fabricius, J. C. 1775. Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorvm classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymus, locis, descriptionibvs, observcationbvs. Metcalf Collection, North Carolina State University: Flensbvrgi and Lipsiae. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 36510.

Morawitz, F. 1875. In: Bees. A. Fedtschenko (ed.). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter und Co.; p. 303.

Morawitz, F. 1880. Ein Beitrag zur Bienen-Fauna Mittel-Asiens. Izves. Imperatorskoi Akad. Nauk, 26: 337 - 379.

Saini, M. S., Raina, R. H. and Ghator, H. S. 2015. Indian Bumblebees. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehradun, Uttarakhand; p. 247.

Skorikov, A. S. 1912. Neue Hummelformen (Hymenoptera, Bombidae). IV. Russkoe ento. Obozrenie, 12: 606 - 610.

Smith, F. 1878. List of the Hymenoptera obtained by Mr. Ossian Limborg east of Maulmain, Tenassserim Provinces, during the months of December 1876, January, March and April 1877, with descriptions of new species. J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 47: 167 - 169.

Williams, P. H. 1991. The bumblebees of the Kashmir Himalaya (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Bombinae). Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. London (Ent), 60: 1 - 204.

Williams, P. H. 2004. In: Genus Bombus Latreille. R. K., Gupta, (ed.). An annotated catalogue of the Bee species of the Indian region. Jodhpur: Jai Narain Vyas University.

Williams, P. H., Ito, M., Matsumura, T. and Kudo, I. 2010. The bumblebees of Nepal Himalaya (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Insecta Matsumurana, 66: 115 - 151.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Apidae
Genus	Bombus