Bombus (Melanobombus) sichelii Radoszkowski

An, Jiandong, Williams, Paul H., Zhou, Bingfeng, Miao, Zhengying & Qi, Wenzhong, 2011, The bumblebees of Gansu, Northwest China (Hymenoptera, Apidae), Zootaxa 2865, pp. 1-36 : 25

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5623048
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scientific name	Bombus (Melanobombus) sichelii Radoszkowski
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49. Bombus (Melanobombus) sichelii Radoszkowski View in CoL

( Fig. 52 View FIGURE 40 – 54 )

BOMBUS View in CoL SICHELII Radoszkowski, 1860:481 View in CoL , lectotype queen ( Tkalců, 1974a:34) MNHU examined. Russia: Kamchatskaya Oblast’.

Bombus sicheli View in CoL f. uniens Vogt, 1909:62, 26 queen 94 worker syntypes ZMA examined. ‘Zentralasien’, probably Mongolia. Bombus sicheli View in CoL ssp. chinganicus Reinig, 1936:6 (not of Reinig, 1936:8 = B. bohemicus Seidl View in CoL ), type not seen. China: Neimenggu.

Material examined. 107 workers 10 males (IAB).

Distribution in Gansu. Common at low to high elevations of the eastern loess plateau and Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in the southwest; rare at low to medium elevations of the southeastern and western mountains ( Fig. 52 View FIGURE 40 – 54 ); 18 localities between 1506 and 3454 m (IAB).

Distribution in China. Hebei, Shanxi, Neimenggu, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia (IAB).

Forage plants. FABACEAE : Melilotus officinalis , Vicia unijuga ; GENTIANACEAE : Halenia elliptica ; LAMI- ACEAE: Caryopteris incana , C. tangutica , Dracocephalum heterophyllum , Salvia przewalskii , Salvia sp.; RANUN- CULACEAE: Cosmos bipinnatus , Saussurea sp.; SCROPHULARIACEAE : Euphrasia pectinata , Pedicularis torta , Pedicularis sp.