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was described originally as species number 23 on page 472 of Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau s (1835)
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:
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FF32FE53FC503348" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">Hirsutus, ater; thorace undique griseo hirto, pilis brevibus. Abdominis supra segmento primo nigro, secundo, tertio quartoque rubris, quinto anoque nigris; tibiis tarsisque fusce rufis, supra nigro villosis, subtus rufo hirtis. Alis fuscis, violaceo nitentibus.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FF39FDF9FC8D3318" box="[176,832,590,612]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">Nigra si fuisset hirsuties thoracis, pro Bombo Carolino habuissem</emphasis>
.”
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[Hairy, dull black; with the thorax covered everywhere with grey bristly hair, the hairs shorter. With the first segment of the abdomen dorsally glossy black, the second, third and fourth red, the fifth and the anus glossy black; with the tibiae and tarsi dark reddish, black-haired above, with reddish bristly hairs below. With the wings dark, shining violet./Were the hair of the thorax glossy black, I would have taken it for
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FF19FC9BFE91323F" box="[144,348,812,836]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">Bombus Carolinus</emphasis>
.
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] (M.A. Alonso-Zarazaga,
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FD1CFC9BFD1C323F" box="[661,721,812,836]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">in litt</emphasis>
.)
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The description is then repeated with slight elaboration in French, specifying that the specimen was a “
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. Long. 11 lig.” The statement
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FCEBFCDBFECD32D8" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">pro Bombo Carolino habuissem</emphasis>
is a reference to a species now known as
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FCB8FC3CFC3032D8" box="[817,1021,907,931]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">Bombus excellens</emphasis>
Smith (
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)
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not the
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FE2BFC1CFDFB32B8" box="[418,566,939,963]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">Apis carolina</emphasis>
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of Linnaeus. It is known from high elevations of the northern Andes (
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) and has a colour pattern of the pubescence similar to
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FE83FC5BFE613578" box="[266,428,1003,1027]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The last line of the description for
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FCD6FC5BFBCF3578" box="[863,1026,1003,1027]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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reads: “
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. Musée de M. le compte Dejean”.
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The date of Lepeletier s publication is given on the title page as 1836, but a note inserted into the copy in the Natural History Museum (NHM, London) library reads “This volume was published in the week ending
<date id="E170AEA8FFB2B012FD4BFBDDFC9635F9" box="[706,859,1130,1154]" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160" value="1835-12-26">26 Dec. 1835</date>
/(Bibl.
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) Ioanis Sherborn.” D. Baker (
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FE04FB3CFE1C35D9" box="[397,465,1162,1186]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">in litt.</emphasis>
) confirmed this earlier date from the
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FCF7FB3DFF1135B9" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">
Bibliographie de la
<collectingCountry id="EDD9C8F8FFB2B012FF19FB1CFF1135B9" box="[144,220,1195,1218]" name="France" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">France</collectingCountry>
</emphasis>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="95718868FFB2B012FF19FAABFE44344F" blockId="1.[144,1104,1308,1691]" box="[144,393,1308,1332]" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FF19FAABFE44344F" bold="true" box="[144,393,1308,1332]" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">Subsequent treatments</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB2B012FF19FAF3FEEF3427" author="Smith F" box="[144,290,1348,1372]" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160" refId="ref7552" refString="Smith F. 1854. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. Apidae. London: Trustees of the British Museum." type="book" year="1854">Smith (1854)</bibRefCitation>
on page 401 referred to a specimen in the J.O. Westwood collection as the
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specimen “(
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<typeStatus id="4A7536CAFFB2B012FE19FAD2FE723407" box="[400,447,1381,1404]" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">type</typeStatus>
sp. in Coll. Westw.
</emphasis>
)”. The collection worked on by Westwood is in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH).
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compared the colour pattern of the pubescence of
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FC26FA12FB8234C7" box="[943,1103,1444,1468]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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when discussing
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FEC7FA73FE2234A7" box="[334,495,1476,1500]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">Bombus huntii</emphasis>
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(page 173) and then redescribed (page 174)
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FC66FA72FF153487" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
under the name “12.
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”, without using the name
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FE88F9B3FEB23767" box="[257,383,1540,1564]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">rubriventris</emphasis>
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or having seen a specimen, but referring to [Lepeletier de] “St. Fargeau. See his work, Vol. I. p. 472,
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FDCEF992FD4A3747" box="[583,647,1573,1596]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">et seq</emphasis>
.”.
</paragraph>
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on page 181 wrote that he believed that the
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was “probably lost” and that: “I have seen no
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FE66F9D3FD8A3707" box="[495,583,1636,1660]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">Bombus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
specimen which I could consider as representing this species.
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FEDDF933FE1037E0" box="[340,477,1667,1691]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">B. carolinus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
[of authors, =
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB2B012FD12F933FCE937E0" box="[667,804,1667,1691]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="1160">B. excellens</emphasis>
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] comes nearest to it and [Lepeletier de] St. Fargeau probably made his description from a freak specimen of that species” (my insertions in brackets).
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on page 364 described a specimen of
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB1B011FCEAFF5EFBCF307B" box="[867,1026,232,256]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="1161">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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labelled “
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.” in the Hope collection (OUMNH) and stated that he regarded it as “probably the
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”.
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<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB1B011FF77FEFFFE50301B" author="Frison TH" box="[254,413,328,352]" pageId="2" pageNumber="1161" pagination="137 - 165" refId="ref6610" refString="Frison TH. 1925. Contribution to the classification of the Bremidae (bumble-bees) of Central and South America. Trans Am Entomol Soc. 51: 137 - 165." type="journal article" year="1925">Frison (1925)</bibRefCitation>
on page 154 referred to the note by
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. Frison concluded: “Cockerell says that the malar space is moderate in length, rather shorter than in
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, and if it were not for this statement I would be inclined to consider
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as a synonym of
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB1B011FD0FFE1FFD2430BB" box="[646,745,424,448]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="1161">carolinus</emphasis>
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…” [of authors, =
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB1B011FC49FE1FFB8830BB" box="[960,1093,424,448]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="1161">B. excellens</emphasis>
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].
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described a specimen in the Westwood Collection, Hope Department (OUMNH), to be “in good condition” and wrote that it was “Labelled as
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by me”. He gave the
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locality as “
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[
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]” (his brackets)
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.
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<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB1B011FF77FDF0FE603324" author="Milliron HE" box="[254,429,583,607]" pageId="2" pageNumber="1161" pagination="81 - 235" refId="ref7266" refString="Milliron HE. 1973. A monograph of the western hemisphere bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Bombinae). II. The genus Megabombus subgenus Megabombus. Memoirs Entomol Soc Can. 89: 81 - 235. doi: 10.4039 / entm 10589 fv" type="journal article" year="1973">Milliron (1973)</bibRefCitation>
on page 137 gave the
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locality as “
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(St. Dominique), [São Domingos,
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]” (his brackets), but on the next page (page 138) he reported what must have been the same label locality as “
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.” (as in his earlier paper) and then discussed the specimen s likely origins at length (see below).
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suggested that the species is “either very rare and localized in highland areas or it is entirely extinct”
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.
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<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB1B011FF77FCB1FE7A3265" author="Williams PH" box="[254,439,774,798]" pageId="2" pageNumber="1161" pagination="79 - 152" refId="ref7729" refString="Williams PH. 1998. An annotated checklist of bumble bees with an analysis of patterns of description (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Entomology). 67: 79 - 152. [cited 15 Oct 2014]. Available from: www. nhm. ac. uk / bombus /" type="journal article" year="1998">Williams (1998)</bibRefCitation>
on page 112 reported the interpretations of
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB1B011FC53FCB1FB433265" author="Milliron HE" box="[986,1166,774,798]" pageId="2" pageNumber="1161" pagination="81 - 235" refId="ref7266" refString="Milliron HE. 1973. A monograph of the western hemisphere bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Bombinae). II. The genus Megabombus subgenus Megabombus. Memoirs Entomol Soc Can. 89: 81 - 235. doi: 10.4039 / entm 10589 fv" type="journal article" year="1973">Milliron (1973)</bibRefCitation>
, adding comments on the condition of the specimen and diagnostic characters that separate it from other similar species.
</paragraph>
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Other references mention the species but without adding further information (
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;
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB1B011FE4DFC31FCC632E5" author="Moure JS &amp; Sakagami SF" box="[452,779,902,926]" pageId="2" pageNumber="1161" pagination="65 - 194" refId="ref7367" refString="Moure JS, Sakagami SF. 1962. As mamangabas sociais do Brasil (Bombus Latreille) (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Studia entomologica. 5: 65 - 194." type="journal article" year="1962">Moure and Sakagami 1962</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB1B011FCABFC31FB4132E5" author="Abrahamovich AH &amp; Diaz NB" box="[802,1164,902,926]" pageId="2" pageNumber="1161" pagination="199 - 214" refId="ref5960" refString="Abrahamovich AH, Diaz NB. 2002. Bumble bees of the Neotropical Region (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Biota Colombiana. 3: 199 - 214." type="journal article" year="2002">Abrahamovich and Diaz 2002</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB1B011FF5DFC12FDD732C6" author="Cameron SA &amp; Williams PH" box="[212,538,933,957]" pageId="2" pageNumber="1161" pagination="552 - 563" refId="ref6172" refString="Cameron SA, Williams PH. 2003. Phylogeny of bumble bees in the New World subgenus Fervidobombus (Hymenoptera: Apidae): congruence of molecular and morphological data. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 28: 552 - 563. doi: 10.1016 / S 1055 - 7903 (03) 00056 - 3" type="journal article" year="2003">Cameron and Williams 2003</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB1B011FDA2FC12FC9E32C6" author="Abrahamovich AH &amp; Diaz NB &amp; Morrone JJ" box="[555,851,933,957]" pageId="2" pageNumber="1161" pagination="99 - 117" refId="ref5989" refString="Abrahamovich AH, Diaz NB, Morrone JJ. 2004. Distributional patterns of the Neotropical and Andean species of the genus Bombus (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Acta Zoologica Mexicana. 20: 99 - 117." type="journal article" year="2004">Abrahamovich et al. 2004</bibRefCitation>
;
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).
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB1B011FF5DFBAAFD34354E" bold="true" box="[212,761,1053,1077]" pageId="2" pageNumber="1161">Provenance and status of the OUMNH specimen</emphasis>
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There is a specimen in the Westwood Collection, Hope Department (OUMNH), a large female, almost
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in length (
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), that appears to be a queen in the morphological sense. Although substantially smaller than as described by Lepeletier (11 French lines is
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in length), it agrees in the colour pattern of the pubescence with the original description, and is the only specimen known so to do.
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB1B011FF5DFB53FEB53587" author="Milliron HE" box="[212,376,1252,1276]" pageId="2" pageNumber="1161" pagination="81 - 235" refId="ref7266" refString="Milliron HE. 1973. A monograph of the western hemisphere bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Bombinae). II. The genus Megabombus subgenus Megabombus. Memoirs Entomol Soc Can. 89: 81 - 235. doi: 10.4039 / entm 10589 fv" type="journal article" year="1973">Milliron (1973</bibRefCitation>
, 138) believed that “It is very unlikely that Lepeletier had before him more than this single specimen, which he indicated was from the Dejean collection (intensive search did not, however, disclose any
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(Lep.)
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among the few remaining recognizable specimens of the Dejean collection).” Milliron had examined F.W. Hope s copy of
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and found notes by Westwood in the margin beside the description of
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB1B011FCADFA32FC0834E7" box="[804,965,1412,1436]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="1161">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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to the effect that the label “
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”/“Rubriventris.”, reverse side “Carolinus”, was attached by Lepeletier.
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The labels on the OUMNH specimen are currently: (1) [female]; (2) “
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”/ “Rubriventris.”, reverse side “Carolinus”; (3) “
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.” or possibly “
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.”; (4) “
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HYM: 63”/“rubriventris”/“Lep.”/“HOPE DEPT. OXFORD”; (5) “
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[female]”/“
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”/“rubriventris”/“Lep.”/“H. E.
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”. The second label matches the label described by Westwood and Milliron, while the third label matches the label described by Cockerell and Milliron. The pin appears to be of an early nineteenth century design, with a silver shaft and a head wrought from coiled brass wire (R. Thompson, NHM, pers. comm.).
</paragraph>
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Figure 1. Dorsal aspect of the holotype female of
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showing the
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<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB0B010FF33FB3BFE9235DF" author="Milliron HE" box="[186,351,1164,1188]" pageId="3" pageNumber="1162" pagination="81 - 235" refId="ref7266" refString="Milliron HE. 1973. A monograph of the western hemisphere bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Bombinae). II. The genus Megabombus subgenus Megabombus. Memoirs Entomol Soc Can. 89: 81 - 235. doi: 10.4039 / entm 10589 fv" type="journal article" year="1973">Milliron (1973</bibRefCitation>
, 138) believed that P.A. Latreille had acquired the specimen now in the OUMNH possibly as early as 1800, although he does not record why he believed this. D. Baker (
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) believed that it could have been acquired by Latreille at any time before his death in 1833. However, it was probably acquired by Latreille before 1826, when at least the bulk of Latreille s collection was purchased by P.F.M.A. Dejean (
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), because it was while it was in the Dejean collection that the specimen came to the attention of Lepeletier.
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gives an account of early collectors in
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, but there is no mention of an obvious direct connection with Latreille or Paris collections.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="95718868FFB0B010FF33FA1CFD093739" blockId="3.[144,1104,1100,1666]" pageId="3" pageNumber="1162">
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB0B010FF33FA1CFE8634B8" author="Baker DB" box="[186,331,1451,1475]" pageId="3" pageNumber="1162" pagination="1189 - 1204" refId="ref6028" refString="Baker DB. 1994. Type material in the University Museum, Oxford, of bees described by Comte Amedee Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau and Pierre Andre Latreille (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). J Nat Hist. 28: 1189 - 1204. doi: 10.1080 / 00222939400770591" type="journal article" year="1994">Baker (1994)</bibRefCitation>
documents that at some date after 1841 the Dejean collection passed in part to Westwood at Oxford via J.G. Audinet-Serville. Therefore it had neither originally belonged to the Hope Department and then “passed through the hands of Lepeletier” as stated by
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, 364), nor had it been acquired by Westwood from Lepeletier as stated by
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, 138).
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As reported previously (
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), the specimen is not now “in good condition” (
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB0B010FE90F9DDFE7537F9" author="Milliron HE" box="[281,440,1642,1666]" pageId="3" pageNumber="1162" pagination="87 - 99" refId="ref7196" refString="Milliron HE. 1960. Recognition of bumblebee type specimens, with notes on some dubious names (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Bull Brooklyn Entomol Soc. 55: 87 - 99." type="journal article" year="1960">Milliron 1960</bibRefCitation>
) but has had the metasoma glued back into place at the waist (tarsi on all legs and the terminal joints of the right antenna are incomplete). Nonetheless, the characters of both the head and the metasoma appear to be distinctive from other known bumblebee species (
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB7B017FD52FF5FFCB1307B" author="Williams PH" box="[731,892,232,256]" pageId="4" pageNumber="1163" pagination="79 - 152" refId="ref7729" refString="Williams PH. 1998. An annotated checklist of bumble bees with an analysis of patterns of description (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Entomology). 67: 79 - 152. [cited 15 Oct 2014]. Available from: www. nhm. ac. uk / bombus /" type="journal article" year="1998">Williams 1998</bibRefCitation>
), so there is no reason to believe that the specimen is a composite and not genuine. It is possible that damage and repair to the specimen have contributed to the discrepancy in measured body length.
</paragraph>
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I regard the female specimen (
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) in the Westwood Collection as the
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by monotypy (the only specimen examined by Lepeletier when writing his description) of
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</taxonomicName>
(
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: Article 73.1.2), because: (1) only a single specimen is implied in the original description by the use of the singular “
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. Long. 11 lig.”; (2) the Westwood Collection female is the unique specimen to agree in colour pattern of the pubescence with the original description; and (3) this is the only specimen known to bear Lepeletier s label “
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”/“Rubriventris.”.
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locality
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The original description gives the
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locality as “
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”, whereas the third label on the
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specimen apparently gives its origin as “
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.”.
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<paragraph id="95718868FFB7B017FF77FC91FE0C3546" blockId="4.[212,1173,702,1659]" pageId="4" pageNumber="1163">
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB7B017FF77FC91FE6F3245" author="Milliron HE" box="[254,418,806,830]" pageId="4" pageNumber="1163" pagination="81 - 235" refId="ref7266" refString="Milliron HE. 1973. A monograph of the western hemisphere bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Bombinae). II. The genus Megabombus subgenus Megabombus. Memoirs Entomol Soc Can. 89: 81 - 235. doi: 10.4039 / entm 10589 fv" type="journal article" year="1973">Milliron (1973</bibRefCitation>
, 138) had examined a copy of
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB7B017FC8AFC91FB433245" author="Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau ALM" box="[771,1166,806,830]" pageId="4" pageNumber="1163" refId="ref7058" refString="Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau ALM. 1835. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hymenopteres Paris (1836)." type="book" year="1835">Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau (1835)</bibRefCitation>
, originally owned by Hope and later used by Westwood, and found notes by Westwood in the margin beside the description of
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB7B017FCADFCD0FC083205" box="[804,965,870,894]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="1163">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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to the effect that Westwood believed that the “St. Domingo.” label (Westwood s spelling) was written by Latreille. From a recent examination of this copy (OUMNH), Westwood s notes are written in pencil, which is now difficult to read. Milliron interpreted the label information in combination with the original description as referring to a São Domingos in the state of
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,
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(one of many similar place names in South America, see below).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="95718868FFB7B017FF77FBF1FD3934A0" blockId="4.[212,1173,702,1659]" pageId="4" pageNumber="1163">
I have examined a copy of a letter written by Latreille and the examples of his handwriting reproduced by
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB7B017FDD1FBD2FD3B3506" author="Baker DB" box="[600,758,1125,1149]" pageId="4" pageNumber="1163" pagination="1189 - 1204" refId="ref6028" refString="Baker DB. 1994. Type material in the University Museum, Oxford, of bees described by Comte Amedee Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau and Pierre Andre Latreille (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). J Nat Hist. 28: 1189 - 1204. doi: 10.1080 / 00222939400770591" type="journal article" year="1994">Baker (1994)</bibRefCitation>
. Intriguingly, although the handwritten characters of the locality label “
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.” are mostly simple (e.g. the cross-like “t”), there is a distinctive “S” elongated below the line and a complex flourish on the upper part of the “D” (
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). There is a similar “S” and “D” in Latreille s handwriting in Baker s figs 1a (“
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”) and 1d (“
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.”). The latter is quite distinct from the formation of the letter “D” by Lepeletier (Baker s fig.
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). The handwriting sample on the locality label is too small to be conclusive and a person s handwriting can change during their life, but it is quite possible that the locality label was written by Latreille. However, this does not prove that the label was added to this specimen by Latreille, or that it was added by anyone before the description of
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB7B017FC64FA12FB5834C7" box="[1005,1173,1444,1468]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="1163">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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by Lepeletier, so it could be a later addition.
</paragraph>
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<collectorName id="383BEDBEFFB7B017FF77FA53FEA03480" box="[254,365,1507,1531]" pageId="4" pageNumber="1163">D. Baker</collectorName>
(
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB7B017FE0AFA53FE0A3480" box="[387,455,1507,1531]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="1163">in litt</emphasis>
.) believed that the published
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locality, Brésil, and the specimen label, “
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.”, are in conflict to such a degree that “it is unlikely to be the specimen on which Lepeletier based his description”. He argued that
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(“
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, not necessarily the town of
<collectorName id="383BEDBEFFB7B017FF71F9D4FE473700" box="[248,394,1635,1659]" pageId="4" pageNumber="1163">S. Domingo</collectorName>
”) and
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à Saint-Domingue (now Cabo Francés Viejo,
<collectingCountry id="EDD9C8F8FFB6B016FF56FF1FFE1A31BB" box="[223,471,168,192]" name="Dominican Republic" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164">Dominican Republic</collectingCountry>
) were localities well known to contemporary French entomologists. Indeed, Baker considered it unthinkable that Lepeletier would describe a bee that he knew to be labelled “
<taxonomicName id="52CEF3EBFFB6B016FD4BFF5FFCA2307B" box="[706,879,232,256]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1161" rank="subSpecies" subSpecies="domingue">St. Domingue</taxonomicName>
.” as coming from “Brésil” (although, of 26 Lepeletier bee species names listed by Baker in his 1994 paper, three names apparently have published
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localities in countries outside the distribution of the species as they are currently understood). Baker concluded that either the specimen is not the
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, or the label does not belong to it. In fact there is another example in Baker s paper on the Lepeletier and Latreille
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in the OUMNH (
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, 1192) for which Baker concluded that the
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locality published for
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB6B016FDCDFE70FCAE30A4" box="[580,867,455,479]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164">Anthophora domingensis</emphasis>
Lepeletier
</taxonomicName>
(a synonym of
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB6B016FF71FE50FE0F3084" box="[248,450,487,511]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164">Amegilla garrula</emphasis>
(Rossi)
</taxonomicName>
?), the only bee listed in this publication as described from a specific Central or
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locality, of
<collectorName id="383BEDBEFFB6B016FC66FDBFFF383344" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164">Le Cap Français</collectorName>
à
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, is in this case a “false locality”. Baker believed that it may have resulted either from a misreading of the label by Lepeletier (the label may have been read as “capf”) or from Lepeletier having been misinformed by Dejean. Baker goes on to write that this “
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB6B016FC9CFD30FCB033E4" box="[789,893,647,671]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164">Amegilla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
does not occur in the West Indies” (
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB6B016FEE3FD10FDFD33C4" box="[362,560,679,703]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164">Amegilla garrula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is a European species). It seems to me likely that in the case of
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB6B016FEE3FD70FD4833A4" box="[362,645,711,735]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164">Anthophora domingensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the label referring to Saint-Domingue was added to the specimen in error before its description by Lepeletier in 1841. A similar fate could have befallen the
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of
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB6B016FD28FCB0FC863265" box="[673,843,774,798]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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, but perhaps after its description in 1835
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.
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Exploring this avenue further, the Muséum National d Histoire Naturelle (MNHN, Paris) has multiple
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specimens of fish taxa with the
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locality “
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.”. These are regarded as referring to what is now
<collectingCountry id="EDD9C8F8FFB6B016FCBAFC31FC1632E5" box="[819,987,902,926]" name="Dominican Republic" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164">the Dominican</collectingCountry>
Republic, all collected by Dr Alexandre Ricord (
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1798
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB6B016FD09FC11FD4032C6" box="[640,653,934,957]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164"></emphasis>
1876
</date>
). Ricord was employed as a naval doctor, but was also a correspondent with the Paris museum. Another possibility for the “
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.” label of
<taxonomicName id="52CEF3EBFFB6B016FE54FC51FDB13286" box="[477,636,997,1021]" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Bombus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rubriventris">
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB6B016FE54FC51FDB13286" box="[477,636,997,1021]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is that in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it was common practice for specimens from continental interiors to be labelled with the name of the port of export from which they were bought or shipped, with little interest in their precise origin (Vane-Wright,
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB6B016FC50FBF1FBD93526" box="[985,1044,1093,1117]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164">in litt</emphasis>
.). So it is even possible that Ricord purchased the specimen in what is now
<collectingCountry id="EDD9C8F8FFB6B016FC2EFBD2FB823506" box="[935,1103,1125,1149]" name="Dominican Republic" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164">the Dominican</collectingCountry>
Republic, whatever its origin.
</paragraph>
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Intriguingly, there are similar flourishes for the letter “D” in Ricord s handwritten correspondence (e.g. letter to R. Pearle,
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, Smithsonian archives, unit 7054 box 1 folder 14) to those noted above for the “
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.” label of
<taxonomicName id="52CEF3EBFFB6B016FF19FAB2FEFC3467" box="[144,305,1284,1308]" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Bombus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rubriventris">
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB6B016FF19FAB2FEFC3467" box="[144,305,1284,1308]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. However, Ricord s “S” is usually much extended above rather than below the line. This appears to weaken the support for the “
<taxonomicName id="52CEF3EBFFB6B016FCD3FA93FC333447" box="[858,1022,1316,1340]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1161" rank="subSpecies" subSpecies="domingue">St. Domingue</taxonomicName>
.” label having been written by Ricord. The possibility that the specimen was nonetheless collected by Ricord in
<collectingCountry id="EDD9C8F8FFB6B016FE15FAD3FD8A3407" box="[412,583,1380,1404]" name="Dominican Republic" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164">the Dominican</collectingCountry>
Republic and then passed to Latreille could remain, even if it is less likely. For the fish taxa described from the Ricord material by G. Cuvier in 1830,
<date id="E170AEA8FFB6B016FEEFFA14FDC634C0" box="[358,523,1443,1467]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1164" value="1831" valueMax="1832">1831 and 1832</date>
, the date of collection of these specimens is given as 1827 (see Fishbase, MNHN), but this is after most of Latreille s collection was purchased by Dejean.
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If we were nonetheless to take the specimen label “
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.” at face value, then a Dominican origin should at least be considered. Bumblebees are hitherto unknown from and have been presumed absent from the Caribbean islands. But if searches had not been made, then they might have been overlooked. If bumblebees were to occur there, then the most likely place would be on the highest mountain, which is Pico
<collectingRegion id="570A468AFFB5B015FEFFFF5EFE0B307B" box="[374,454,233,256]" country="Dominican Republic" name="Duarte" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">Duarte</collectingRegion>
(
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) in the Cordillera Central, behind the town of
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. However, repeated expeditions to the Cordillera Central to collect bees since 1988 (approximately 500 collector hours: J. Rawlins,
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB5B015FCF6FE9EFC09303B" box="[895,964,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">in litt.</emphasis>
) and in 1999 (M. Ivie,
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB5B015FE87FEFEFE9F301B" box="[270,338,328,352]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">in litt.</emphasis>
) have found no bumblebees.
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Alternatively, if we take the published
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locality “
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” at face value, and if we accept Baker s view that Lepeletier would not have written this if the specimen had borne a label “
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.” at the time of description, then the “
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.” label should be discounted from giving the true
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locality. Consequently, Baker (
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB5B015FE50FE5FFDD43084" box="[473,537,487,511]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">in litt</emphasis>
.) wrote that [any] “attempts to identify the supposed
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locality of
<taxonomicName id="52CEF3EBFFB5B015FE1CFDB0FDDE3364" box="[405,531,519,543]" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Bombus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rubriventris">
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB5B015FE1CFDB0FDDE3364" box="[405,531,519,543]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
among the numerous
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on the American mainland were doomed to failure” and there are indeed many similar names (e.g.
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; see others in
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)
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="95718868FFB5B015FF77FDD0FE723265" blockId="6.[212,1172,168,798]" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">
<materialsCitation id="25A68235FFB5B015FF77FDD0FE713265" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2850092304" country="Brazil" location="Brazil" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165" specimenCount="2">
In summary, the “
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” label may have been written by Latreille, but it may also have been added to the specimen by a third party, and perhaps after the description of
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB5B015FEF7FD10FDED33C4" box="[382,544,679,703]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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. This leaves the
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locality “Brésil” in the original description as probably the most reliable evidence of its origin available at present. Any further resolution of the
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locality within
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would have to rely on indirect or external evidence
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.
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB5B015FF5DFC37FD7232E3" bold="true" box="[212,703,896,920]" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">Colour pattern and length of the pubescence</emphasis>
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There could be other clues to the origin of the OUMNH specimen in the colour pattern and length of the pubescence. Bumblebee colour patterns often show close convergences in particular regions among unrelated but co-occurring species (
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). The black thorax and extensively red metasoma are characteristic of several species of the high Andes mountains, including
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB5B015FCD5FB9FFBD3353B" box="[860,1054,1064,1088]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">Bombus excellens</emphasis>
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(subgenus
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB5B015FF5DFBFFFE49351B" box="[212,388,1096,1120]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">Thoracobombus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, like
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB5B015FE44FBFEFDBD351B" box="[461,624,1096,1120]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
),
<taxonomicName id="52CEF3EBFFB5B015FD04FBFFFC49351B" authority="Vachal" authorityName="Vachal" authorityYear="1904" box="[653,900,1096,1120]" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Bombus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="baeri">
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB5B015FD04FBFFFCE5351B" box="[653,808,1096,1120]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">Bombus baeri</emphasis>
Vachal
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB5B015FC4EFBFFFB59351B" box="[967,1172,1096,1120]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">Bombus coccineus</emphasis>
Friese
</taxonomicName>
(both subgenus
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB5B015FE5FFBDFFD6F35FB" box="[470,674,1128,1152]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">Cullumanobombus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). Some individuals with this colour pattern have been recorded from nearer to the northern coast of the continent in
<collectingCountry id="EDD9C8F8FFB5B015FBADFB30FB5935E4" box="[1060,1172,1159,1183]" name="Colombia" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">Colombia</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="EDD9C8F8FFB5B015FE83FB10FEB035C4" box="[266,381,1191,1215]" name="Venezuela" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">Venezuela</collectingCountry>
(
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). But neither the Andes (in a broad sense) nor the distribution ranges of any of these Andean bumblebee species fall within the boundaries of modern
<collectingCountry id="EDD9C8F8FFB5B015FE19FB50FE1A3584" box="[400,471,1255,1279]" name="Brazil" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">Brazil</collectingCountry>
. Even in the 1820s, the larger Empire of
<collectingCountry id="EDD9C8F8FFB5B015FC26FB50FC3F3584" box="[943,1010,1255,1279]" name="Brazil" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">Brazil</collectingCountry>
at its greatest
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Table 1. A selection of example places with names similar to
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., especially in
</paragraph>
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Brazil, among candidates for the type locality of
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(coordinates for WGS84
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<th id="682FE356FFB54FECFF5DF985FEBA3733" box="[212,375,1586,1608]" gridcol="0" gridrow="4" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">São Domingos</th>
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<th id="682FE356FFB54FECFF5DF9F8FEBA371E" box="[212,375,1615,1637]" gridcol="0" gridrow="5" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">São Domingues</th>
<td id="682FE356FFB54FECFE16F9F8FD8F371E" box="[415,578,1615,1637]" gridcol="1" gridrow="5" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">São Paulo</td>
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<th id="682FE356FFB54FECFF5DF9DAFEBA37F8" box="[212,375,1645,1667]" gridcol="0" gridrow="6" pageId="6" pageNumber="1165">São Domingos</th>
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</paragraph>
<paragraph id="95718868FFB4B014FF19FF1EFB9D319B" blockId="7.[144,1104,168,415]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">
extent never included parts of the Andes. Nonetheless, no specimens resembling
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FF19FF7EFEE3319B" box="[144,302,200,224]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in morphology have been collected from the Andes (in a broad sense).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="95718868FFB4B014FF33FF5FFCB230E4" blockId="7.[144,1104,168,415]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">
Bumblebees of high elevations in the Andes (in a broad sense) often have long pubescence (e.g.
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FEE9FEBEFE20305B" box="[352,493,264,288]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. excellens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FD8FFEBEFDA5305B" box="[518,616,264,288]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. baeri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FD3DFEBEFC8A305B" box="[692,839,265,288]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. coccineus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). They contrast with
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FF19FE9EFEFF303B" box="[144,306,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which has short pubescence, similar to the relatively low-elevation species from eastern
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, such as
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FDAFFEFEFD34301B" box="[550,761,328,352]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. (Th.) brevivillus</emphasis>
Franklin
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="52CEF3EBFFB4B014FCFAFEFEFECD3004" authority="Lepeletier" authorityName="Lepeletier" authorityYear="1835" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Bombus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brasiliensis" subGenus="Th.">
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FCFAFEFEFB82301B" box="[883,1103,328,352]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. (Th.) brasiliensis</emphasis>
Lepeletier
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FECFFEDEFDC830FB" box="[326,517,360,384]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. (Th.) atratus</emphasis>
Franklin
</taxonomicName>
(NHM collection). Hence, the indirect evidence from colour pattern and from hair length is inconsistent.
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FF19FE68FE70308C" bold="true" box="[144,445,479,503]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">Relationships to other taxa</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="95718868FFB4B014FF19FDBFFDD13385" blockId="7.[144,1104,479,1691]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">
<heading id="CE393F04FFB4B014FF19FDBFFEBF335B" box="[144,370,520,544]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">
<taxonomicName id="52CEF3EBFFB4B014FF19FDBFFEBF335B" box="[144,370,520,544]" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Bombus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rubriventris">
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FF19FDBFFEBF335B" box="[144,370,520,544]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">Bombus rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</heading>
is superficially similar to queens of the Chinese
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FC37FDBFFF1B3344" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">Bombus pyrosoma</emphasis>
Morawitz
</taxonomicName>
, for example in the length and colour pattern of the pubescence, and in some aspects of morphology (including the shape of the oculo-malar area, sculpturing of the ocello-ocular area, and sculpturing of metasomal tergum 6). Some of the more obvious differences are that
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FD07FD3FFCF833E4" box="[654,821,647,671]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has the pubescence of metasomal terga 56 black rather than red, the wings are slightly darker, and the distal posterior corner of the mid basitarsus is produced as a sharp spine, rather than forming nearly a right angle.
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From its morphology,
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FE46FCB0FDB93264" box="[463,628,775,799]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
belongs almost certainly to the former subgenus
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FF76FC90FE6B3244" box="[255,422,807,831]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">Fervidobombus</emphasis>
Skorikov
</taxonomicName>
, most species of which are Neotropical (
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB4B014FC63FC91FF083225" author="Williams PH" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166" pagination="79 - 152" refId="ref7729" refString="Williams PH. 1998. An annotated checklist of bumble bees with an analysis of patterns of description (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Entomology). 67: 79 - 152. [cited 15 Oct 2014]. Available from: www. nhm. ac. uk / bombus /" type="journal article" year="1998">Williams 1998</bibRefCitation>
).
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FF55FCF1FE4E3225" box="[220,387,838,862]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">Fervidobombus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been revised more recently as part of the broader subgenus
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FF19FCD1FE8D3205" box="[144,320,870,894]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">Thoracobombus</emphasis>
Dalla Torre (
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)
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB4B014FD79FCD1FB9D3205" author="Cameron SA &amp; Williams PH" box="[752,1104,870,894]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166" pagination="552 - 563" refId="ref6172" refString="Cameron SA, Williams PH. 2003. Phylogeny of bumble bees in the New World subgenus Fervidobombus (Hymenoptera: Apidae): congruence of molecular and morphological data. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 28: 552 - 563. doi: 10.1016 / S 1055 - 7903 (03) 00056 - 3" type="journal article" year="2003">Cameron and Williams (2003)</bibRefCitation>
and
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used several genes to estimate the phylogenetic relationships among nearly all of the New World species of
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FD6EFC11FC5A32C5" box="[743,919,934,958]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">Thoracobombus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Unfortunately, these analyses did not include
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FE61FC70FD4A32A5" box="[488,647,966,990]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, because neither DNA nor morphological characters of the male genitalia were available for study. The female
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FC42FC50FF793566" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
can be distinguished from females of
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FDF3FBB0FC853565" box="[634,840,1030,1054]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. (Th.) excellens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(which have a similar colour pattern of the pubescence) because
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FDF6FB91FCEC3545" box="[639,801,1062,1086]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has the pubescence much shorter and more even; the oculo-malar area is nearly square rather than nearly twice as long as the basal breadth of the mandible; and metasomal tergum 6 is weakly raised in a medial bump posteriorly, just before the apex (
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB4B014FCBAFB32FC1535E6" author="Williams PH" box="[819,984,1157,1181]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166" pagination="79 - 152" refId="ref7729" refString="Williams PH. 1998. An annotated checklist of bumble bees with an analysis of patterns of description (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Entomology). 67: 79 - 152. [cited 15 Oct 2014]. Available from: www. nhm. ac. uk / bombus /" type="journal article" year="1998">Williams 1998</bibRefCitation>
).
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFB4B014FC7BFB32FF1B35C6" author="Milliron HE" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166" pagination="81 - 235" refId="ref7266" refString="Milliron HE. 1973. A monograph of the western hemisphere bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Bombinae). II. The genus Megabombus subgenus Megabombus. Memoirs Entomol Soc Can. 89: 81 - 235. doi: 10.4039 / entm 10589 fv" type="journal article" year="1973">Milliron (1973)</bibRefCitation>
considered the female morphological characters of
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FCAFFB11FC0B35C6" box="[806,966,1189,1213]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to be “very much like those of
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FEFEFB71FDC835A6" box="[375,517,1221,1245]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. bellicosus</emphasis>
” Smith
</taxonomicName>
, distinguishing
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FC93FB71FC7035A6" box="[794,957,1221,1245]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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by its more evenly curved posterior edge of the hind basitarsus. He distinguished
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FC26FB51FB823586" box="[943,1103,1253,1277]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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from
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FF5CFAB1FE463466" box="[213,395,1285,1309]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. (Th.) opifex</emphasis>
Smith
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by the shorter oculo-malar area of
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FC2BFAB1FB853466" box="[930,1096,1285,1309]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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.
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suggested that
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FD8AFA91FD6B3446" box="[515,678,1317,1341]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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can be distinguished from
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FC66FA91FF343426" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. (Th.) bellicosus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
because
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FED7FAF2FE313426" box="[350,508,1349,1373]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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has finer and more uniform punctures on the central area of the clypeus, and a distinct medial groove subapically on tergum 6. It was considered that
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FECAFA32FE2C34E7" box="[323,481,1412,1436]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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is slightly more similar in these characters to
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FC6DFA32FB8534E7" box="[996,1096,1412,1436]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. opifex</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, although the difference between
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FD8EFA12FDA034C7" box="[519,621,1444,1468]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. opifex</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FD25FA12FCFA34C7" box="[684,823,1444,1468]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. bellicosus</emphasis>
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is subtle.
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<taxonomicName id="52CEF3EBFFB4B014FC26FA13FF1534A7" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Bombus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rubriventris">
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FC26FA13FF1534A7" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">Bombus rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</heading>
can also be distinguished from
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FDCAFA72FD6534A7" box="[579,680,1476,1500]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. opifex</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FD6DFA72FCA334A7" box="[740,878,1476,1500]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. bellicosus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the band of fine punctures in the outer lateral part of the ocello-ocular area, which for
<taxonomicName id="52CEF3EBFFB4B014FC39FA52FB9D3487" box="[944,1104,1508,1532]" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Bombus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rubriventris">
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FC39FA52FB9D3487" box="[944,1104,1508,1532]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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is narrower (extending just less than half of the distance from the eye to the lateral ocellus), less dense (most of the punctures are spaced by more than their own breadths) so that it is shining, and where it extends anteriorly of the lateral ocellus it has a shallow but distinct longitudinal broad depression or groove.
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFB4B014FC7EF9D4FEC337E0" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1166">Bombus rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</heading>
has the corbicular fringes of the hind tibia short, the outer corbicular surface on the proximal two-thirds with many short very fine branched hairs, more like
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFBBB01BFE8DFF7EFE42319B" box="[260,399,200,224]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167">B. bellicosus</emphasis>
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than
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFBBB01BFE5BFF7EFDFA319B" box="[466,567,200,224]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167">B. opifex</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Hence a particularly close relationship to
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFBBB01BFBABFF7EFF38307B" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167">B. bellicosus</emphasis>
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seems likely. In the future more information might be gleaned from a morphometric study of wing venation (cf.
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFBBB01BFDFCFEBFFCAF305B" author="Wappler T &amp; De Meulemeester &amp; Aytekin AM &amp; Michez D &amp; Engel MS" box="[629,866,264,288]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167" pagination="784 - 792" refId="ref7625" refString="Wappler T, De Meulemeester T, Aytekin AM, Michez D, Engel MS. 2012. Geometric morphometric analysis of a new Miocene bumble bee from the Randeck Maar of southwestern Germany (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Syst Entomol. 37: 784 - 792. doi: 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 3113.2012.00642. x" type="journal article" year="2012">Wappler et al. 2012</bibRefCitation>
) and this option is being pursued.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph id="95718868FFBBB01BFF5DFE37FD5130E3" blockId="8.[212,1172,384,1691]" box="[212,668,384,408]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167">
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFBBB01BFF5DFE37FD5130E3" bold="true" box="[212,668,384,408]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167">Biogeography of New World bumblebees</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="95718868FFBBB01BFF5DFE1FFBB433E4" blockId="8.[212,1172,384,1691]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167">
A preliminary estimate of bumblebee phylogeny using male morphology concluded that bumblebees are likely to have reached South America after the northern and southern continents last re-connected, as part of the great “faunal interchange”, within the last 4 million years (
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFBBB01BFDB3FDB0FD133364" author="Williams PH" box="[570,734,519,543]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167" pagination="239 - 255" refId="ref7685" refString="Williams PH. 1985. A preliminary cladistic investigation of relationships among the bumble bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Syst Entomol. 10: 239 - 255. doi: 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 3113.1985. tb 00529. x" type="journal article" year="1985">Williams 1985</bibRefCitation>
). Re-analysis of the same distribution data but using molecular evidence from
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFBBB01BFD21FD90FC6B3344" author="Cameron SA &amp; Hines HM &amp; Williams PH" box="[680,934,551,575]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167" pagination="161 - 188" refId="ref6128" refString="Cameron SA, Hines HM, Williams PH. 2007. A comprehensive phylogeny of the bumble bees (Bombus). Biol J Linnean Soc. 91: 161 - 188. doi: 10.1111 / j. 1095 - 8312.2007.00784. x" type="journal article" year="2007">Cameron et al. (2007)</bibRefCitation>
in a study by
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFBBB01BFBDBFD90FED73324" author="Hines HM" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167" pagination="58 - 75" refId="ref6837" refString="Hines HM. 2008. Historical biogeography, divergence times, and diversification patterns of bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus). Syst Biol. 57: 58 - 75. doi: 10.1080 / 10635150801898912" type="journal article" year="2008">Hines (2008)</bibRefCitation>
suggested a date for this colonization of South America having started before 15
<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFBBB01BFF67FDDFFF363304" box="[238,251,616,639]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167"></emphasis>
7.5 million years ago. If the
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locality of
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFBBB01BFD6CFDDFFC4E3304" box="[741,899,615,639]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
were in
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, then this could be consistent with either of these phylogenetic and biogeographic estimates.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="DDD4DBE3FFBBB01AFF77FD10FBD2303B" lastPageId="9" lastPageNumber="1168" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="95718868FFBBB01BFF77FD10FD233466" blockId="8.[212,1172,384,1691]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167">
Alternatively, if the
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locality were in
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Republic, then that would have dramatic consequences for reconstructions of the historical biogeography of bumblebees. Bumblebees are thought to be very poor at dispersing over sea and arriving in a fit state and in sufficient numbers to establish viable populations (
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFBBB01BFBC8FCB1FE4D3245" author="Ito M &amp; Sakagami SF" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167" pagination="23 - 51" refId="ref6970" refString="Ito M, Sakagami SF. 1980. The bumblebee fauna of the Kurile Islands (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Low Temperature Sci (B). 38: 23 - 51." type="journal article" year="1980">Ito and Sakagami 1980</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFBBB01BFE19FC90FE223245" author="Ito M" box="[400,495,806,830]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167" pagination="188 - 201" refId="ref6937" refString="Ito M. 1987. Geographic variation of an eastern Asian bumble bee Bombus diversus in some morphometric characters (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Kontyu. 55: 188 - 201." type="journal article" year="1987">Ito 1987</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFBBB01BFE76FC91FCFF3245" author="Macfarlane RP &amp; Gurr L" box="[511,818,806,830]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167" pagination="29 - 36" refId="ref7076" refString="Macfarlane RP, Gurr L. 1995. Distribution of bumble bees in New Zealand. N Z Entomologist. 18: 29 - 36. doi: 10.1080 / 00779962.1995.9721999" type="journal article" year="1995">Macfarlane and Gurr 1995</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFBBB01BFCCBFC90FBDD3245" author="Estoup A &amp; Solignac M &amp; Cornuet J-M &amp; Goudet J &amp; Scholl A" box="[834,1040,806,830]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167" pagination="19 - 31" refId="ref6442" refString="Estoup A, Solignac M, Cornuet J-M, Goudet J, Scholl A. 1996. Genetic differentiation of continental and island populations of Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Europe. Mol Ecol. 5: 19 - 31. doi: 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 294 X. 1996. tb 00288. x" type="journal article" year="1996">Estoup et al. 1996</bibRefCitation>
). Although queen bumblebees are sometimes able to fly long distances across sea (
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFBBB01BFC6CFCF1FB493225" author="Haeseler V" box="[997,1156,838,862]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167" pagination="123 - 136" refId="ref6804" refString="Haeseler V. 1974. Aculeate Hymenopteren uber Nord- und Ostsee nach Untersuchungen auf Feuerschiffen. Insect Syst Evol. 5: 123 - 136. doi: 10.1163 / 187631274 X 00155" type="journal article" year="1974">Haeseler 1974</bibRefCitation>
), it is unclear whether they arrive in a fit physiological state to found colonies. Furthermore, because sex determination in bumblebees depends on heterozygosity at a single locus so that sibling matings will result in the rearing of many diploid males (
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFBBB01BFEAEFC71FDE632A5" author="Duchateau MJ &amp; Hoshiba H &amp; Velthuis HHW" box="[295,555,966,990]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167" pagination="263 - 269" refId="ref6364" refString="Duchateau MJ, Hoshiba H, Velthuis HHW. 1994. Diploid males in the bumble bee Bombus terrestris. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 71: 263 - 269. doi: 10.1111 / j. 1570 - 7458.1994. tb 01793. x" type="journal article" year="1994">Duchateau et al. 1994</bibRefCitation>
), unless many different queens arrive in a new area together, then severe inbreeding depression is likely to result. Therefore if bumblebees were to have reached the area of the present
<collectingCountry id="EDD9C8F8FFBBB01BFD4EFBB2FC783566" box="[711,949,1029,1053]" name="Dominican Republic" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167">Dominican Republic</collectingCountry>
, then they are more likely to have had to have spread in larger numbers through suitable habitat across land when it was still part of the mainland of Central America. That would require bumblebees to have reached the Caribbean region before the end of the Cretaceous period (
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFBBB01BFEA6FB32FE1735E6" author="Donnelly TW" box="[303,474,1157,1181]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167" pagination="15 - 37" refId="ref6329" refString="Donnelly TW. 1988. Geologic constraints on Caribbean biogeography. In: Liebherr JK, editor. Zoogeography of Caribbean insects. Ithaca: Cornell University Press; p. 15 - 37." type="book chapter" year="1988">Donnelly 1988</bibRefCitation>
;
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), long before what is currently accepted for the arrival of bumblebees in the New World (
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFBBB01BFC61FB12FB4135C6" author="Williams PH" box="[1000,1164,1189,1213]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167" pagination="239 - 255" refId="ref7685" refString="Williams PH. 1985. A preliminary cladistic investigation of relationships among the bumble bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Syst Entomol. 10: 239 - 255. doi: 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 3113.1985. tb 00529. x" type="journal article" year="1985">Williams 1985</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFBBB01BFF5DFB72FE9C35A6" author="Hines HM" box="[212,337,1221,1245]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167" pagination="58 - 75" refId="ref6837" refString="Hines HM. 2008. Historical biogeography, divergence times, and diversification patterns of bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus). Syst Biol. 57: 58 - 75. doi: 10.1080 / 10635150801898912" type="journal article" year="2008">Hines 2008</bibRefCitation>
). Consequently, a Dominican
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locality would require a major revision of our understanding of the entire historical biogeography of bumblebees, which makes
<collectingCountry id="EDD9C8F8FFBBB01BFEADFAB2FE003466" box="[292,461,1285,1309]" name="Dominican Republic" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167">the Dominican</collectingCountry>
interpretation less likely.
</paragraph>
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There have been documented losses of some bee species (including
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFBBB01BFB97FA91FF3B3427" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167">B. bellicosus</emphasis>
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) from some parts of
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(
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;
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFBBB01BFCBAFAF3FBDE3427" author="Martins AC &amp; Goncalves RB &amp; Melo GAR" box="[819,1043,1348,1372]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167" pagination="157 - 176" refId="ref7107" refString="Martins AC, Goncalves RB, Melo GAR. 2013. Changes in wild bee fauna of a grassland in Brazil reveal negative effects associated with growing urbanization during the last 40 years. Zoologia (Curitiba). 30: 157 - 176. doi: 10.1590 / S 1984 - 46702013000200006" type="journal article" year="2013">Martins et al. 2013</bibRefCitation>
). We have now no admissible direct information on where within
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFBBB01BFC3AFAD2FB953406" box="[947,1112,1381,1405]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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may have been collected. But one of the most famous concentrations of high species endemism in South America is in the Atlantic Forest region of
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, which has suffered extensive habitat degradation (
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFBBB01BFD25FA73FC8334A7" author="Fonseca GAB" box="[684,846,1476,1500]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167" pagination="17 - 34" refId="ref6503" refString="Fonseca GAB. 1985. The vanishing Brazilian Atlantic forest. Biol Conservation. 34: 17 - 34. doi: 10.1016 / 0006 - 3207 (85) 90055 - 2" type="journal article" year="1985">Fonseca 1985</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFBBB01BFCEBFA73FBFE34A7" author="Bibby CJ &amp; Collar NJ &amp; Crosby MJ &amp; Heath MF &amp; Imboden C &amp; Johnson TH &amp; Long AJ &amp; Stattersfield AJ &amp; Thirgood SJ" box="[866,1075,1476,1500]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1167" refId="ref6076" refString="Bibby CJ, Collar NJ, Crosby MJ, Heath MF, Imboden C, Johnson TH, Long AJ, Stattersfield AJ, Thirgood SJ. 1992. Putting biodiversity on the map: priority areas for global conservation. Cambridge (UK): International Council for Bird Preservation." type="book" year="1992">Bibby et al. 1992</bibRefCitation>
). When seeking an area of
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with exceptionally high levels of endemism where extinction of a short-haired bumblebee is likely to have occurred in the last 200 years, this would have to be a strong candidate. Any material from the Atlantic Forest being shipped to Europe in the eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries is very likely to have been exported via
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, so “
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” would be a likely given locality. The Atlantic Forest ecoregion is also adjacent in its southern part (wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/atlantic_forests, accessed 2014) to the distributions of those bumblebee species that are likely to be most closely related to
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFBAB01AFE83FF5EFE63307B" box="[266,430,232,256]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1168">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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(
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFBAB01AFE4BFF5EFD9D307B" box="[450,592,232,256]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1168">B. bellicosus</emphasis>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="52CEF3EBFFBAB01AFD19FF5EFD36307B" authorityName="Smith" authorityYear="1879" box="[656,763,232,256]" class="Insecta" family="Apidae" genus="Bombus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="1168" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="opifex">B. opifex</taxonomicName>
;
</emphasis>
see maps in
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). However, the bumblebee fauna of southeastern
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is relatively well known (
<bibRefCitation id="F15FF599FFBAB01AFF1EFE9FFE6A303B" author="Silveira FA &amp; Cure JR" box="[151,423,296,320]" pageId="9" pageNumber="1168" pagination="47 - 55" refId="ref7510" refString="Silveira FA, Cure JR. 1993. High- Altitude bee fauna of southeastern Brazil: implications for biogeographic patterns (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Stud Neotropical Fauna Environ. 28: 47 - 55. doi: 10.1080 / 01650529309360887" type="journal article" year="1993">Silveira and Cure 1993</bibRefCitation>
), and
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<emphasis id="A7BA547AFFBAB01AFE7EFE9EFD51303B" box="[503,668,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1168">B. rubriventris</emphasis>
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has so far remained undetected.
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