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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Bombus quadricolor
(Lepeletier, 1832)
Species distributed in continental Europe, Caucasus and other Asian mountains like Elburs, Altai and Buryatia. In the Iberian Peninsula it appears sparingly and was found in the 1980s in the Pyrenees, between
1100 and
2000
m of altitude and in the Cantabrian Range and the Sierra de los Ancares (
Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004
). It is a social parasite of
B. soroeensis
.
It is considered as Least Concern in the IUCN European Red List (Rasmont
et al.
2015).
At present, it has been collected in the Pyrenees in meadows, in beech forest and forestal and supraforestal grassland of
Pinus uncinata
between
1310 and
2100
m (
Fig. 7
), on
Buglossoides arvensis
(L.) I. M. Johns.,
Centaurea scabiosa
L.,
Gentiana lutea
L.,
Lotus corniculatus
L.
Trifolium repens
L.
and
Trifolium pratense
L.
According to current data, this species exhibits greater orophilous tendency (
Fig. 7
) in the Pyrenees, where it is declining and it seems to be threatened (
Table 2
).
New
records.
Spain
:
Girona
:
Camprodón
, ski resort, 23-
VII-2009, 1
male,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
.
Huesca
:
Ordesa
, pradera, 4-
VII-2006, 1
queen;
Ordesa
,
Laña Sarratieto
, 10
-
VII-2013, 1
queen; C. Ornosa leg., UCME.
Lleida
:
Baños de Tredós
slope, 10-
VII-2014, 1
queen,
F. Torres
leg.,
UCME
.