Bombus incertus Morawitz, 1881
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20. Bombus incertus Morawitz, 1881 View in CoL
Material: Azerbaijan, Lerik, Mt. Kemirkey 20.06.1985, , leg. H. Aliev.
Distribution: Caucasian sub-endemic. Occurs in the Greater Caucasus, Transcaucasia, north-eastern Turkey and northern Iran ( Skorikov 1938, Nikolskaya and Popov 1958, Reinig 1974, Özbek 1976, Baker 1996).
Remarks: In Azerbaijan occurs in alpine and subalpine meadows in the Lesser Caucasus ( Aliev 1984). In Talysh it is found in montane steppe meadows up to 2300 m. Nest underground.
Food plants: Astragalus sp.
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.
BAKER D. B. 1996: On a collection of humble-bees from northern Iran (Hymenoptera: Apoidea, Bombinae). - Beitrage zur Entomologie, Berlin 46: 109 - 132.
NIKOLSKAYA, M. N. & POPOV V. V. 1958: Hymenoptera [of the Caucasus]: 318 - 351. - In: VINOGRADOV, B. S. (ed.), Animals of the USSR. Vol. 5. Highland Regions of the European Part of the USSR. - 655 pp.; Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow & Leningrad.
OZBEK, H. 1976: Pollinator bees on alfalfa in the Erzurum region of Turkey. - Journal of Apicultural Research 15 (3 / 4): 145 - 148.
REINIG, W. F. 1974: Faunistische und zoogeographische Studien in Kleinasien. 5. Auf Hummelfang im Taurus. - Nachrichtenblatt der Bayrischen Entomologen, Munich 4: 67 - 80.
SKORIKOV, A. S. 1938: Zoogeographic patterns in the bumble bee faunas of the Caucasus, Iran and Anatolia (Hymenoptera, Bombinae). - Entomologicheskoye obozrenie, Leningrad 27 (3 / 4): 145 - 151.
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