Bombus (Pyrobombus) lemniscatus Skorikov

• Main Authors: An, Jiandong, Huang, Jiaxing, Shao, Youquan, Zhang, Shiwen, Wang, Biao, Liu, Xinyu, Wu, Jie, Williams, Paul H.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Apidae; Bombus; Bombus lemniscatus; Stella; Polygonum viviparum
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6136761; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6136761

50. Bombus (Pyrobombus) lemniscatus Skorikov (Figs 102, 103) Bombus lemniscatus Skorikov, 1912: 607. Bombus nursei var. flavopilosus Friese, 1918: 84. Bombus (Lapidariobombus) peralpinus Richards, 1930: 646. Material examined. 16 workers, 2 males (IAB). Distribution in North China. Primarily at the edge of the east Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. Common at medium elevations of the Liancheng nature reserve and high elevations of the Zhagana nature reserve of the east Qinghai- Tibetan plateau in Gansu. Rare at medium elevations of the Taibai nature reserve of the Qinliang mountains in southern Shaanxi. 7 localities (Fig. 102) between 1303–3524 m (IAB). Similar species in North China. This species is often similar in its white- and yellow-banded colour pattern to B. rufofasciatus (see the key; Figs 103, 145). Distribution in China. Sichuan, Yunnan, Xizang, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai (IAB). Forage plants. ASTERACEAE: Carduus acanthoides, Ligularia sp., Parasenecio roborowskii, Saussurea stella, Saussurea sp.; LAMIACEAE: Salvia przewalskii; POLYGONACEAE: Polygonum viviparum; RANUNCULACEAE: Aconitum gymnandrum; SCROPHULARIACEAE: Pseudolysimachion 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 pages 54-55, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3830.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286560