Bombus vestalis (Geoffroy, 1785)

Ornosa, Concepción, Torres, Félix & Rúa, Pilar De La, 2017, Updated list of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from the Spanish Pyrenees with notes on their decline and conservation status, Zootaxa 4237 (1), pp. 41-77 : 54

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scientific name	Bombus vestalis (Geoffroy, 1785)
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Western Palearctic species, spread in Europe, the north of Turkey and Elburs. In the Iberian Peninsula it includes two subspecies, of which the nominate one used to be locally abundant at the Pyrenean area , until 1700 m ( Ornosa 1984, Rasmont 1988, Castro 1993, Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004), but it has not been found in recent samplings. It is a social parasite on B. terrestris (sometimes on B. lucorum ), clearly much scarcer than its host in the Pyrenees.

The species was assessed as Least Concern in the IUCN Red List of European Bees (Rasmont et al. 2015).

References

Castro, L. (1993) Sobre los Bombinae (Hymenoptera, Apidae) de la Sierra de Albarracin (I). Zapateri Revista aragonesa de Entomologia, 3, 5 - 14.

Ornosa, C. (1984) La subfamilia Bombinae (Hym., Apidae) de la fauna espanola. Coleccion Tesis Doctorales, n ° 203 / 84, Ed. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, 334 pp.

Ornosa, C. & Ortiz-Sanchez, F. J. (2004) Hymenoptera: Apoidea I. In: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Ed.), Fauna Iberica. Fol. 23. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, pp. 1 - 556.

Rasmont, P. (1988) Monographie ecologique et zoogeographique des Bourdons de France et de Belgique (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombinae). Faculte des Sciences agronomiques de L´Etat, Gembloux, 310 pp.