Bombus hyperboreus
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| Bombus hyperboreus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Genus: | Bombus |
| Subgenus: | Alpinobombus |
| Species: | B. hyperboreus |
| Binomial name | |
| Bombus hyperboreus Schönherr, 1809 |
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Bombus hyperboreus is an Arctic bumblebee species with a circumpolar distribution, found in arctic Canada, Alaska, Greenland, northern Scandinavia and Russia[1].
Bombus hyperboreus is a parasite in the nests of a different bumblebee species, Bombus polaris.[2]
Due to its parasitic lifestyle no workers are present. Queen and drone are similar with the thorax and anterior part of the abdomen brownish-orange. The thorax has a black transversal band, while the last abdominal segments are black.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Discover Life. "Discover Life map of Bombus hyperboreus". http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20m?kind=Bombus+hyperboreus. Retrieved 19 February 2009.
- ^ Milliron H.E., Oliver D.R. (1966) Bumblebees from northern Ellesmere Island, with observations on usurpation by Megabombus hyperboreus (Schönh.), Can. Entomol. 98:207–213
- ^ Bumblebee.org. "Bumblebees found in North America". http://www.bumblebee.org/NorthAmerica.htm. Retrieved 19 February 2009.
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