Bombus (Thoracobombus) impetuosus Smith

An, Jiandong, Williams, Paul H., Zhou, Bingfeng, Miao, Zhengying & Qi, Wenzhong, 2011, The bumblebees of Gansu, Northwest China (Hymenoptera, Apidae), Zootaxa 2865, pp. 1-36 : 13

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21. Bombus (Thoracobombus) impetuosus Smith View in CoL

( Fig. 24 View FIGURE 22 – 39 )

BOMBUS IMPETUOSUS Smith, 1871 View in CoL :249, lectotype queen ( Tkalců, 1987:61) BMNH examined. China: Yunnan.

Bombus Potanini Morawitz, 1890:350 View in CoL , type ZISP not found ( Y. Pesenko, in litt.). Synonymised provisionally with Bombus impetuosus Smith View in CoL by Williams (1998). China: ‘Kan-ssu’, probably Qinghai.

Bombus silvarum View in CoL var. subrufescens Friese, 1913:87 , holotype male MNHU examined. Synonymised with Megabombus potanini (Morawitz) by Tkalců (1987). China: ‘Tibet’,?Xizang.

Bombus (Agrobombus) yuennanensis Bischoff, 1936:14 View in CoL , lectotype queen ( Tkalců, 1987:61) MNHU examined. Synonymised with Megabombus impetuosus (Smith) by Tkalců (1987). China: Yunnan.

Bombus (Agrobombus) combai Tkalců, 1961:357 View in CoL , type not seen. Synonymised with Megabombus potanini (Morawitz) by Tkalců (1987). China: Qinghai.

Material examined. 1 queen 97 workers 11 males (IAB).

Distribution in Gansu. Common at medium to high elevations of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in the southwest, rare at medium elevations of the western mountains ( Fig. 24 View FIGURE 22 – 39 ); 19 localities between 1719 and 3524 m (IAB).

Distribution in China. Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia (IAB).

Forage plants. ASTERACEAE : Arctium lappa , Cirsium leo , Saussurea japonica , Saussurea sp., Senecio jacobaea , Sinacalia tangutica ; BORAGINACEAE : Myosotis sylvatica ; CAMPANULACEAE : Adenophora potaninii ; FABACEAE : Astragalus bhotanensis , Melilotus officinalis , Oxytropis ochrocephala ; GENTIANACEAE : Halenia elliptica ; LAMIACEAE : Caryopteris incana , Dracocephalum heterophyllum , Nepeta prattii , Salvia przewalskii , Salvia sp., Thymus mongolicus ; PAPAVERACEAE : Corydalis sp.; RANUNCULACEAE : Aconitum carmichaelii , A. gymnandrum , A. leucostomum , Clematis tangutica ; SCROPHULARIACEAE : Euphrasia pectinata , Pedicularis kansuensis , P. spicata , Pedicularis sp.