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 vestalis
(Geoffroy, 1785)
Western Palearctic
species, spread in
Europe
, the north of
Turkey
and
Elburs
.
In
the
Iberian Peninsula
it includes two subspecies, of which the nominate one used to be locally abundant at the
Pyrenean area
, until
1700 m
(
Ornosa 1984
,
Rasmont 1988
,
Castro 1993
,
Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004
), but it has not been found in recent samplings. It is a social parasite
on
B. terrestris
(sometimes
on
B. lucorum
), clearly much scarcer than its host in the Pyrenees.
The species was assessed as Least Concern in the IUCN Red List of European Bees (Rasmont
et al.
2015).