2202 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



Biology: Hobbs, 1964. Canad. Ent. 96: 1465-1470 (ecology of south. Alta spp.). — Milliron and 

 Oliver, 1966. Canad. Ent. 98: 207-213, 6 figs, (usurpation). —Richards, 1973. Quaest. Ent. 9: 

 115-157, 29 figs., 10 tables (life history). 

 balteatus Dahlbom. Holarctic; Arctic Alaska and Canada, south on principal cordillera of west. 



N. Amer. to Calif. (Sierra Nevada Mts. and White Mts.) and N. Mex. (Truchas Peak), 



?Ariz. (Patagonia Mts.). 

 Bombus balteatus Dahlbom, 1832. Bombi Scand., p. 36. 9. 

 Bombus nivalis Dahlbom, 1832. Bombi Scand., p. 40. ?. 

 Bo7nbus tricolor Dahlbom, 1832. Bombi Scand, p. 41. 9. 

 Bombus kirbielhis Curtis, 1834. Descr. insects brought home by Comdr. James Clark Ross 



second voyage, App. Nat. Hist., p. 62. 9 , 6 , $ . 

 Bo7nbus kirbyellus Smith, 1854. Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus., v. 2, p. 397. Emend. 

 Bombus putnami Cresson, 1878. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc. p. 185. 9. 

 Psithyrus kodiakensis Ashmead, 1902. Wash. Acad. Sci., Proc. 4: 130. 6. 

 Bombus kirbyellus var. pyrrhopygus Friese, 1902. hi Romer and Schaudinn's Fauna 



Arctica 2: 495. 

 Bombus kirbi^ellus var. trisfis Sparre-Schneider In Friese, 1902. In Romer and 



Schaudinn's Fauna Arctica 2: 495. Preocc. 

 Bombus atrifasciatus Morrill, 1903. Canad. Ent. 35: 224. 9. 

 Bo7ubus kirbyellus var. lysholmi Friese, 1905 (1904). Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. 



Petersbourg, Ann. 9: 519. 

 moinbus kirbyellus \ar. friesei Skorikov, 1908 (1907). Russ. Ent. Obozr. 7: 111. 

 Bombus kirbyellus var. cinctus Friese, 1911. Deut. Ent. Ztschr. 4: 456. Preocc. 

 Bombus kirbyellus var. cinctellus Friese, 1911. Deut. Ent. Ztschr. 4: 456. 

 Bombus kirbyellus var. similis Friese, 1911. Deut. Ent. Ztschr. 4: 684. N. name. 

 Alpinobombus kirbyellus appropinquans Skorikov, 1914. Russ. Ent. Obozr. 14: 123. 

 Alpinobombus kirbyellus var. subcollaris Skorikov, 1914. Russ. Ent. Obozr. 14: 123. 

 Alpinobombus kirbyellus var. gmelini Skorikov, 1914. Russ. Ent. Obozr. 14: 124. 

 Bombus kirbyellus var. semijaeyisis Friese, 1923. In Norwegian Exped. Novaya Zemlya 



1921, Rpt. Sci. Results, 14: 4. 

 Bremus kirbyellus var. alexanderi Frison, 1923. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 48: 308. 9. 

 Bremus kirbyellus var. arizonensis Frison, 1923. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 48: 309. 9. 



Taxonomy: Thorp, 1962. Pan-Pacific Ent. 38: 23-24 (tax. characters, geogr. records in Calif.). 

 —Thorp, 1970. Pan-Pacific Ent. 46: 177 (validity of Ariz, records). —Milliron, 1973. Ent. 

 Soc. Canada, Mem. 89: 85-89, 94-107, figs. 8, 9 (synonymy, redescription, geogr. records, as 

 balteatus, kirbyellus, and polaris in part). — Loken, 1973. Norsk Ent. Tidsskr. 20: 105-114, 

 figs. 26, 69, 70, tables VI-IX (synonymy, tax. characters, tax. status, variation in color of 

 vestiture). 



Biology: Hobbs, 1964. Canad. Ent. 96: 1465-1470, 6 figs, (life history). —Loken, 1973. Norsk 

 Ent. Tidsskr. 20: 112-114 (life history). 

 hyperboreus Schonherr. Holarctic (circum polar); Arctic Alaska and Canada (Yukon and N. W. 



T), Greenland. Ecology: Usurps colonies of Bombus polaris Curtis, B. jonellus (Kirby) 



and possibly other species either as a casual or a facultative inquiline. 

 ^Apis arctica Quensel in Acerbi, 1802. Travels through Sweden, Finland and Lapland to 



the North Cape in the years 1798 and 1799, v. 2, p. 253, pi. 1, fig. 7. 

 Bombus hyperboreus Schonherr, 1809. Svenska Vetensk. Akad., Handl. 30: 57. 9. 

 Bombus hyperboreus var. natvigi Richards, 1931 (1927). Tromso Mus. Arshefter 50, no. 6, 



p. 9. 6. 

 Borubus hyperboreus var. vulpinus Friese, 1935. Skr. Svalbard Ishavet 65: 4. 

 Alpinibombus(l) hyperboreus eskimo Skorikov, 1937. Ent. Meddel. 20: 57. 6. 

 Alpinibombusil) hyperboreus eskimo mod. henrikseni Skorikov, 1937. Ent. Meddel. 20: 57. 



6. 



Taxonomy: Richards, 1931 (1927). Tromso Mus. Arshefter 50, no. 6, p. 10 (tax. status). 

 —Milliron, 1973. Ent. Soc. Canada, Mem. 89: 89-94, pi. XII, map 7 (synonymy, 

 redescription, geogr. records). —Loken, 1973. Norsk Ent. Tidsskr. 20: 114-118, figs. 27, 71 

 (synonymy, nomenclature). 



