Bombus (Pyrobombus) lemniscatus Skorikov

• Main Authors: An, Jiandong, Williams, Paul H., Zhou, Bingfeng, Miao, Zhengying, Qi, Wenzhong
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Apidae; Bombus; Bombus lemniscatus; Polygonum viviparum
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5623013; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5623013

31. Bombus (Pyrobombus) lemniscatus Skorikov (Fig. 34) Bombus lemniscatus Skorikov, 1912: 607, holotype queen ZISP examined. China: Qinghai. Bombus nursei var. flavopilosus Friese, 1918: 84, lectotype queen (Williams, 1991: 73) MNHU examined. Synonymised with Bombus lemniscatus Skorikov by Williams (1991). Probably India. Bombus (Lapidariobombus) peralpinus Richards, 1930: 646, holotype queen BMNH examined. Synonymised with Pyrobombus lemniscatus (Skorikov) by Tkalců (1974 b). China: Xizang. Material examined. 13 workers (IAB). Distribution in Gansu. Common at medium to high elevations of the western mountains and Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in the southwest (Fig. 34); 4 localities between 2835 and 3524 m (IAB). Distribution in China. Yunnan, Gansu, Qinghai (IAB). Forage plants. ASTERACEAE: Carduus crispus, Parasenecio roborowskii, Saussurea sp.; LAMIACEAE: Salvia przewalskii; POLYGONACEAE: Polygonum viviparum; RANUNCULACEAE: Aconitum gymnandrum; SCROPHULARI- ACEAE: Veronica sp. Published as part of An, Jiandong, Williams, Paul H., Zhou, Bingfeng, Miao, Zhengying & Qi, Wenzhong, 2011, The bumblebees of Gansu, Northwest China (Hymenoptera, Apidae), pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 2865 on page 17, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.204407