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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2017
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Bombus sichelii flavissimus
(Tkalců, 1974)
It is a mountain subspecies, spread in the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian Range, on mountain pastures (
Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004
).
Currently it has been collected in the Pyrenees (
Table 2
) in temperate forest, upperforest and alpine grasslands and shrublands, over all in coniferous forest of
Pinus uncinata
and
Abies alba
with scattered patches of subalpine shrub, since 1300 (only two individuals) to
2300 m
, mostly above
1650 m
(
Fig. 7
), on
Calluna vulgaris
(L.) Hull.,
Centaurea scabiosa
L.,
Gentiana alpina
Mill.
,
Lavandula pyrenaica
DC.,
Lotus corniculatus
L.,
Rhododendron ferrugineum
L.,
Trifolium pratense
L.
,
Trifolium repens
L.
and
Vaccinium myrtillus
L.
This bee exhibits a greater orophilous tendency (
Fig. 7
). It was assessed as Low Concerned (LC) in the IUCN Spanish Red List (
Verdú & Galante 2006
).
New
records.
Andorra
:
Soldeu
,
28-VII-2006
,
4 workers
,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
.
Spain
:
Girona
:
Nùria
,
24-VII-2009
,
1 worker
,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
;
Nùria
,
Pic
de l´
Àliga
,
24-VII-2009
,
10 workers
,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
.
Huesca
:
Chía
,
Mirador
,
Valle de Benasque
,
14-VII-2011
,
1 male
,
1 worker
,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
;
Sahún
pass,
14-VII-2011
,
4 males
,
1 queen
,
1 worker
,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
;
La Besurta
,
Ibón de Villamorta
,
15-VII-2011
,
6 workers
,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
.
Lleida
:
Artiga de Lin
,
15-VIII-2012
,
1 worker
,
P. De la Rúa
leg, UMU:
Baqueira-Ruda
,
27-VII-2006
,
1 male
,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
;
Aigüestortes
threshold,
26-VII-2006
,
1 male
,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
;
Grasslands
between Estany Ratera and Estany Sant Maurici
,
8-VII-2014
,
1 worker
;
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
;
Jou
road,
27-VII-2006
,
1 male
,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
;
Estany Ratera
track,
26-VII-2006
,
1 worker
,
C. Ornosa
leg.,
UCME
.