The high alpine bee fauna (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of the Zillertal Alps, Austria Author Bossert, Silas text Biodiversity Data Journal 2014 2 1115 1115 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1115 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1115 1314-2828-2-1115 Bombus mendax Gerstaecker, 1869 Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: S. Bossert ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: 1 queen ; Location: country: Austria ; stateProvince: Tyrol; locality: Zemmgrund ; verbatimElevation: 2079 m; decimalLatitude: 47.0256794 ; decimalLongitude: 11.8167508 ; Event: samplingProtocol: manual catch ; eventDate: 07-06-13 ; habitat: alpine meadow Distribution Palaearctic ( Williams 1998 , Williams 2014 ). Amiet (1996) reports Bombus mendax to occur above 1500 m a.s.l. and Neumayer (1998) proposes the species to exceed even 3000 m a.s.l.