Bombus fragrans (Pallas, 1771)

Aliev, Halid A., 2005, On the ecology of bumble bees of the Talysh Region, Azerbaijan (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Bombus), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 55 (2), pp. 279-288 : 285

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scientific name

Bombus fragrans (Pallas, 1771)
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14. Bombus fragrans (Pallas, 1771) View in CoL

Material: Qzerbaijan, Lerik, mt. Kemirkei 2400 m. 12.07.1983, , leg. H. Aliev.

Distribution: Widespread in the south-west Palaearctic: south-east Europe, Transcaucasia, Asia Minor, Kazakhstan, mountains of Central Asia (Kirgizia), the South of West Siberia, western part of China and northern Mongolia ( Skorikov 1923, Skorikov 1938).

Remarks: Steppe species. In Azerbaijan occurs in mountain steppes of the Lesser Caucasus up to 3000 m. In Talysh it is found up to the height of 2400 m. in mountain steppes.

Food plants: Scrophularia sp. , Trifolium ambiguum .

SKORIKOV, A. S. 1923: The bumble bees of the Palaearctic Region. Part 1. General biology (with inclusion of zoogeography). - Izvestiya Severnoi Stantsii Zaschity Rastenii, Petrograd 4: 1 - 160.

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Apidae

Genus

Bombus