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An Early Miocene bumble bee from northern Bohemia (Hymenoptera, Apidae)
Prokop, Jakub Dehon, Manuel Michez, Denis Engel, Michael S.
Prokop, Jakub
Dehon, Manuel
Michez, Denis
Engel, Michael S.
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A new species of fossil bumble bee (Apinae: Bombini) is described and figured from Early Miocene (Burdigalian) deposits of the Most Basin at the Bílina Mine, Czech Republic. Bombus trophonius sp. n., is placed within the subgenus Cullumanobombus Vogt and distinguished from the several species groups therein. The species is apparently most similar to the Nearctic B. (Cullumanobombus) rufocinctus Cresson, the earliest-diverging species within the clade and the two may be related only by symplesiomorphies. The age of the fossil is in rough accordance with divergence estimations for Cullumanobombus.
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2017-10-19
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Pensoft Publishers
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Anthophila, Apoidea, Bombus, Burdigalian, Geometric morphometrics, Neogene
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Prokop J, Dehon M, Michez D, Engel MS (2017) An Early Miocene bumble bee from northern Bohemia
(Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 710: 43–63. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.710.14714