Bombus apollineus Skorikov, 1910
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17. Bombus apollineus Skorikov, 1910 View in CoL
Material: Qzerbaijan, Lerik, Mt. Kemirkey 20.06.1983, , leg. H. Aliev.
Distribution: Caucasian sub-endemic. Occurs in the west of the Greater Caucasus, in Transcaucasia and in north-eastern Iran ( Skorikov 1938, Baker 1996).
Remarks: In Azerbaijan it is found in the Lesser Caucasus, in low mountain forests, xerophyte formations and steppe meadows ( Aliev 1984). In Talysh in mountain steppes up to 2400 m. Nest unknown.
Food plants: Salvia viridis .
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.
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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