| Bombus consobrinus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Genus: | Bombus |
| Subgenus: | Bombus (Megabombus) |
| Species: | B. consobrinus |
| Binomial name | |
| Bombus consobrinus Dahlbom, 1832 | |
Bombus consobrinus is a species of bumblebee found in northern Europe, Siberia, Kamchatka, Mongolia, Northeast China, Korea, and Japan. It is associated with taiga.
Description
The bumblebee is large, with the thorax and anterior part of the abdomen coloured orange, followed by a black band. The tip of the abdomen is grey.
Behaviour
This bumblebee, like Bombus (Megabombus) gerstaeckeri, feeds almost entirely on the flowers of monkshood (Aconitum). However, this tight relationship holds only in northern Europe (with Aconitum septentrionale); further east it can be found in areas without Aconitum.
References
- "Bombus consobrinus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ Rasmont, Pierre & Stéphanie Iserbyt (2014). "Bombus Latreille, 1802". Atlas of the European Bees - STEP project. Université de Mons. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
- Holmström, Göran (2007). Humlor - alla Sveriges arter [Bumble-bees - all the species of Sweden] (in Swedish). Östlings Bokförlag Symposion. pp. 110–111. ISBN 978-91-7139-776-8.
- Laverty, Terence M. & Plowright, R.C. (1988). "Flower handling by bumblebees: a comparison of specialists and generalists". Animal Behaviour. 36 (3): 733–740. doi:10.1016/S0003-3472(88)80156-8.
- Potapov, Grigory; Kolosova, Yulia (2021). "Bombus (Megabombus) consobrinus Dahlbom, 1832 in the European North of Russia: its distribution and foraging preference". Fauna norvegica. 41: 27–33. doi:10.5324/fn.v41i0.3903.
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