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 terrestris
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Species almost cosmopolitan, with a distribution that extends from northern Europe to north Africa and from central Asia to the Macaronesia, naturally distributed from
0 to 3000 m
(
Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004
). It has become increasingly important commercially for its pollination services to agriculture. This commercial translocation has resulted in its introduction and invasion in South America,
New Zealand
, Tasmania and
Japan
(
Williams
et al.
2012
). This bee is not regarded as being scarce or threatened (Rasmont
et al.
2015).