Bombus (Pyrobombus) melanopygus Nylander, 1848

Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula’s Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), Zootaxa 5522 (1), pp. 1-391 : 144

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2640192E-0A2B-49C9-BB35-D43AF0263E51
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13940100
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scientific name	Bombus (Pyrobombus) melanopygus Nylander, 1848
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Bombus (Pyrobombus) melanopygus Nylander, 1848 View in CoL

[ Lectotype: MZHF; ♂ Sitka , Alaska, USA]

Bombus melanopygus is an early-flying species and has been documented in the Coastal Sage Matorral, Chaparral, and Baja California Mountains confirmed by specimens vouchered at CASC, EMEC, UCDC, UCRC, and SDNHM ( GBIF 2023 View Materials ). The BBPT collected specimens in Coastal Sage Matorral and Chaparral ecoregions with 68 specimens (45 ♂, 23 ♀) in May, June, and September 2020; April and May 2021; and May 2023. Voucher specimens are in MABC and ECOAB (Supplementary material 1). See fig. 84.