Bombus (Psithyrus) fernaldae (Franklin 1911)

Gibbs, Jason, Ascher, John S., Rightmyer, Molly G. & Isaacs, Rufus, 2017, The bees of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), with notes on distribution, taxonomy, pollination, and natural history, Zootaxa 4352 (1), pp. 1-160 : 42

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4352.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7C684128-FFA7-48AA-B395-B9C6BC39353A
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6002637
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0392879B-735C-AB0E-43D5-FB7BFA9AFAEE
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Bombus (Psithyrus) fernaldae (Franklin 1911)
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Bombus (Psithyrus) fernaldae (Franklin 1911) View in CoL View at ENA (sylvestris group)

County records: Alger, Alpena, Baraga, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Gogebic, Huron, Ingham, Kalamazoo, Keweenaw, Livingston, Luce, Marquette, Schoolcraft.

Notes. Social parasite of B. rufocinctus . No recent specimens examined, although it still occurs in the eastern United States. Williams et al. (2014) treat B. fernaldae as a junior synonym of B. flavidus Eversmann.