Mendacibombus ...

• Main Authors: Williams, Paul H., Huang, Jiaxing, Rasmont, Pierre, An, Jiandong
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Apidae; Mendacibombus; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5625281; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5625281

Key to Mendacibombus species for females 1. From the region including central and western Europe; hair of the thorax and metasomal T1‒2 either entirely black, or with yellow hairs intermixed extensively with the black in some parts, or if with broad pure yellow bands then both the posterior half of T2 is broadly black (rarely with a narrow yellow fringe) and the thoracic dorsum has a broad black band between the wing bases and on the face any yellow hairs are concentrated in a patch at the antennal base whereas the hairs at the side of the clypeus are black............................................................................ B. mendax - From the region including Turkey and the Caucasus east to Kamchatka; hair of the thorax and metasomal T1‒2 either with white or many white-tipped hairs at least in parts, or if with broad pure yellow bands then either the posterior half of T2 is predominantly yellow or the thoracic dorsum is nearly uniformly yellow or the face has pale and black hairs intermixed evenly ... : Published as part of Williams, Paul H., Huang, Jiaxing, Rasmont, Pierre & An, Jiandong, 2016, Early-diverging bumblebees from across the roof of the world: the high-mountain subgenus Mendacibombus revised from species' gene coalescents and morphology (Hymenoptera, Apidae), pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 4204 (1) on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4204.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192302 ...