An Early Miocene bumble bee from northern Bohemia (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

By

Prokop, Jakub
Dehon, Manuel
Michez, Denis
Engel, Michael S.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

710

Pages

43-63

Subjects

Anthophila , Apoidea , Bombus , Burdigalian , geometric morphometrics , Neogene

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.710.14714

 

Abstract

A new species of fossil bumble bee (Apinae: Bombini) is described and figured from Early Miocene (Burdigalian) deposits of the Most Basin at the Bílina Mine, Czech Republic. Bombus trophonius sp. n., is placed within the subgenus Cullumanobombus Vogt and distinguished from the several species groups therein. The species is apparently most similar to the Nearctic B. (Cullumanobombus) rufocinctus Cresson, the earliest-diverging species within the clade and the two may be related only by symplesiomorphies. The age of the fossil is in rough accordance with divergence estimations for Cullumanobombus.