Bombus melanurus Lepeletier, 1836
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Bombus melanurus Lepeletier, 1836 |
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13. Bombus melanurus Lepeletier, 1836 View in CoL
Material: Qzerbaijan Lerik, Mt. Kemirkey 2400 m. 10.07.1983, , leg. H. Aliev.
Distribution: Southern part of Caucasian isthmus, northeastern Turkey, northern Iran, Syria, Lebanon, mountains of Central Asia, Afghanistan, Altai, Mongolia, China (East Tien-Shan, curve of Khuankhe River), Pakistan, Nepal, Sikkim, Tibet ( Williams 1991).
Remarks: In Azerbaijan it is found in the Lesser Caucasus, in highmountain and subalpine meadows with prevalence of Eryngium and Thymus ( Aliev 1984). In Talysh occurs in mountain steppe meadows up to 2400 m. Nest unknown.
Food plants: Eryngium nigromontanum .
ALIEV H. A. 1984: To the fauna and zoogeography of bumble bees of Caucasus Minor within the territory of Azerbaijan. - Bulletin of Moscow Society of Naturalists, biological branch, Moscow 89 (6): 35 - 40.
WILLIAMS, P. H. 1991: The bumble bees of the Kashmir Himalaya (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini). - Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology Series, London 60: 1 - 204.
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