Bombus cryptarum subsp. pallidocinctus, Bertsch & Przemeck & Hrabé de Angelis, 2014

Bertsch, Andreas, Przemeck, Gerhard K. H. & Hrabé de Angelis, Martin, 2014, Haplotypes, median networks, and diagnostic characters as tools to elucidate the intraspecific genetic and taxonomic structure of bumblebees, with a description of Bombus cryptarum pallidocinctus new subspecies (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 64 (2), pp. 221-229 : 225

Description of B. cryptarum pallidocinctus new subspecies

Type material: Holotype: 1 , Labels: printed ’ Finland, Nordsavo, Kuopio, Puijo Hill , 14.vi.2001 A Bertsch’. Genbank KJ668128 . Additional material. 1 , Labels : printed ‘ Russia, St. Petersburg, Smolensk cemetery 13.v.1993 A. Bertsch, Genbank KJ668126 ’; 1 , Labels: printed ‘ Russia, St. Petersburg, Pavlovo 14.vi.1993 A. Bertsch, Genbank KJ668127 ’; 1 , Labels: printed ‘ Russia, Moscow, Botanical Garden Academy of Sciences , 17.vi.1993 A. Bertsch, Genbank KJ668129 ’. Deposited at the SDEI (Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut) .

Description: Diagnostic characters of mtDNA, position numbers referenced to COI gene, NUMBER 1 = first Nucleotide of the Start codon A TA at position 1643 of the complete mitochondrial genome of B. ignitus (Genbank DQ870926 , CHA et al. 2007): 243 C 348 C 1008 C 1071 C 1077 C 1455 C.

Medium-size species, queen length 14–18 mm. The mandible distally broadly rounded with two pronounced anterior teeth and a weak posterior tooth, which is separated from the rounded anterior margin by a broad, shallow-rounded excision or ‘incisura’; labrum with the lateral tubercles low with many coarse punctures on their proximal side, the median labral furrow broad ± rounded; clypeus convex, shining with large punctures widely scattered; ocello-ocular area along inner eye margin with scattered large punctures and with many small punctures, which are only very narrowly reduced in density opposite the ocelli, the area of dense small punctures reaching the eye margin just behind the eye dorsally; mid basitarsus with the distal posterior corner acute but broadly rounded; hind tibia with the outer surface smooth and brightly shining; hind basitarsus with the proximal posterior process produced by more than its proximal breadth, the posterior margin nearly straight; metasomal tergum 2 clearly chagrined, punctures ± distinct; metasomal sternum 6 with a weak central keel. Color pattern: the head with the short hair black, black thorax with a well-defined broad pale yellow collare, going down on the episternum, with a distinct S-band of dark hair at the posterolateral border of the pronotallobus; hairs of the leg bases and hind femur black, hairs of the corbicular fringes black; wings light brown. Hairs of metasomal tergum 1 black, tergum 2 pale yellow, with scattered black hairs intermixed near the posterior margin, especially laterally; tergum 3 predominantly black with lateral white fringes, with white hairs posteriorly; terga 4–6 white with few black hairs intermixed; sternal posterior fringes whitish.

Name: Derived from the characteristic pale yellowgreyish coloration of Collare and Tergum 2, from Latin pallido = pale and cinctus = striped, with cingulum.