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Bombus polaris Curtis, 1835

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Hymenoptera
family
Apidae
genus
Bombus
species
Bombus polaris

Name

Synonyms
Bombus groenlandicus Smith, 1854
Bombus kincaidii Cockerell, 1898
Homonyms
Bombus polaris Curtis, 1835
Common names
Polar Bumble Bee in English
Polar Bumble Bee in English
Bourdon polaire in French

Bibliographic References

  1. Cameron, Hines & Williams (2007) A comprehensive phylogeny of the bumble bees (Bombus)
  2. Cameron, S.A., Hines, H.M. & Williams, P.H. (2007) A comprehensive phylogeny of the bumble bees (Bombus)
  3. Krombein, Karl V., Paul D. Hurd, Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks, 1979: null. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico, vol. 2: Apocrita (Aculeata). xvi + 1199-2209.
  4. Nilsson & Cederberg (2004) Lista över svenska bin och humlor
  5. Nilsson & Cederberg (2004) Lista över svenska bin och humlor.
  6. Williams, Berezin, Cannings, Cederberg, Ødegaard, Rasmussen, Richardson, Rykken, Sheffield, Thanoosing & Byvaltsev (2019) The arctic and alpine bumblebees of the subgenus Alpinobombus revised from integrative assessment of species’ gene coalescents and morphology (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus)
  7. Williams, Berezin, Cannings, Cederberg, Ødegaard, Rasmussen, Richardson, Rykken, Sheffield, Thanoosing & Byvaltsev (2019) The arctic and alpine bumblebees of the subgenus Alpinobombus revised from integrative assessment of species’ gene coalescents and morphology (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus)
  8. Williams, P. H., 1998: An annotated checklist of bumble bees with an analysis of patterns of description (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Entomology), vol. 67, no. 1. 79-152.
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