Updated list of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from the Spanish Pyrenees with notes on their decline and conservation status
Author
Ornosa, Concepción
Author
Torres, Félix
Author
Rúa, Pilar De La
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Zootaxa
2017
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Bombus lapidarius
(Linnaeus, 1758)
It is mainly distributed from northern
Morocco
, southern
Spain
, Sicily and southern
Greece
in the south, and to northern
Sweden
in the north. It occurs from
Ireland
, in the west, to the Ural Mountains in the east. The nominal subspecies is widely dispersed through the continent, while the southern subspecies is more abundant in the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic area (
Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004
). It is not considered as threatened at the continental scale (Least Concern in the IUCN Red List of European Bees, Rasmont
et al.
2015).