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Bombus cockerelli Franklin, 1913

Cockerell's bumblebee

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1956

Rediscovered on 31 August 2011

 

Distribution

White Mountains, New Mexico (south-central), USA

 

Biology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Franklin, H. J. (1913). The Bombidae of the New World. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 38(1912): 177-486.

 

Other references:

University of California - Riverside (2011, December 6). Scientists rediscover rarest U.S. bumblebee: Cockerell's Bumblebee was last seen in the United States in 1956. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 24, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­ /releases/2011/12/111205140616.htm

Yanega, Douglas. (2013). The Status of Cockerell's Bumblebee, Bombus (Pyrobombus) cockerelli Franklin, 1913 (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Southwestern Entomologist 38(3): 517-522. [Abstract]

http://newsroom.ucr.edu/2805

 

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