Bombus (Alpigenobombus) kashmirensis Friese

• Main Authors: An, Jiandong, Huang, Jiaxing, Shao, Youquan, Zhang, Shiwen, Wang, Biao, Liu, Xinyu, Wu, Jie, Williams, Paul H.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Apidae; Bombus; Bombus kashmirensis; Hummel; Stella; Polygonum viviparum
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6136798; https://zenodo.org/record/6136798

66. Bombus ( Alpigenobombus ) kashmirensis Friese (Figs 134, 135) Bombus mastrucatus var. kashmirensis Friese, 1909 [September, Tkalců, 1974 b]: 673. Bombus mastrucatus var. stramineus Friese, 1909 [September, Tkalců, 1974 b]: 673. Bombus tetrachromus Cockerell, 1909 [November, Tkalců, 1974 b]: 397. Alpigenobombus pulcherrimus Skorikov, 1914: 128. Alpigenobombus beresovskii Skorikov, 1933 a: 248. Material examined. 4 queens, 145 workers, 6 males (IAB). Distribution in North China. Only on the edge of the northeast Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in Gansu. Common at high elevations of the Zhagana nature reserve in Diebu, at medium to high elevations of the Qilianshan nature reserve in Sunan and Tianzhu, and at medium elevatons of the Liancheng nature reserve in Yongdeng. Rare at medium to high elevations of the east Qinghai-Tibetan plateau meadows in Hezuo, Xiahe, Luqu and Lintan. 25 localities (Fig. 134) between 2272–4011 m (IAB). Variation in North China . This species shows strong variation in the colour pattern of the hair across its global distribution (Williams, 1991) but with much less variation in North China (Fig. 135). Similar species in North China . This species is often similar in its white-banded colour pattern to female B. ladakhensis (see the key; Figs 135, 149). Distribution in China. Sichuan. Xizang, Gansu, Qinghai (IAB). Forage plants. ALLIACEAE: Allium cyaneum , A . sikkimense ASTERACEAE: Anaphalis hancockii , Carduus acanthoides , Cirsium japonicum , Cosmos bipinnatus , Cremanthodium lineare , Leontopodium leontopodioides , Saussurea stella , Saussurea sp.; CAMPANULACEAE: Adenophora sp.; FABACEAE: Hedysarum gmelinii , H. tanguticum , Medicago sativa , Melilotus albus , M. officinalis GENTIANACEAE: Gentiana algida , Gentiana sp.; GERANIACEAE: Geranium pratense LAMIACEAE: Elsholtzia fruticosa , Salvia przewalskii POLYGONACEAE: Polygonum viviparum RANUNCULACEAE: Aconitum flavum , A. gymnandrumm , Clematis tangutica ROSACEAE: Rubus sp.; SCROPHULARIACEAE: Pedicularis kansuensis , P. spicata , Pedicularis sp., Pseudolysimachion sp.; TAMARICACEAE: Myricaria sp. : Published as part of An, Jiandong, Huang, Jiaxing, Shao, Youquan, Zhang, Shiwen, Wang, Biao, Liu, Xinyu, Wu, Jie & Williams, Paul H., 2014, The bumblebees of North China (Apidae, Bombus Latreille), pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 3830 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3830.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286560 : {"references": ["Friese, H. (1909) Neue Varietaten von Bombus (Hym.). Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, 1909, 673 - 676.", "Tkalcu, B. (1974 b) Eine Hummel-Ausbeute aus dem Nepal-Himalaya (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Bombinae). Senckenbergiana biologica, 55, 311 - 349.", "Cockerell, T. D. A. (1909) XLIII. - Descriptions and records of bees. - XXIII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 4, 393 - 404.", "Skorikov, A. S. (1914) Les formes nouvelles des bourdons (Hymenoptera, Bombidae). VI. Russkoe entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 14 (1), 119 - 129.", "Skorikov, A. S. (1933 a) Zur Fauna und Zoogeographie der Hummeln des Himalaya. Doklady Akademii nauk SSSR, 1933 (5), 243 - 248.", "Williams, P. H. (1991) The bumble bees of the Kashmir Himalaya (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology), 60, 1 - 204."]}