Bombini

The Bombini are a tribe of large bristly apid bees which feed on pollen or nectar. Many species are social, forming nests of up to a few hundred individuals; other species, formerly classified as Psithyrus cuckoo bees, are brood parasites of nest-making species. The tribe contains a single living genus, Bombus, the bumblebees,^[1] and some extinct genera such as Calyptapis and Oligobombus.^[2] The tribe was described by Pierre André Latreille in 1802.

Bombini
Bombus species
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Apidae
Subfamily:	Apinae
Clade:	Corbiculata
Tribe:	Bombini Latreille 1802
Genera
Bombus † Calyptapis † Oligobombus

Fossils

Oligobombus cuspidatus

Bombus cerdanyensis was described from Late Miocene lacustrine beds of La Cerdanya, Spain in 2014.^[3]

Calyptapis florissantensis was described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1906 from the Chadronian (Eocene) lacustrine – large shale of Florissant in the US.^[4][5]

Oligobombus cuspidatus was described by Antropov et al (2014) from the Late Eocene Insect Bed of the Bembridge Marls on the Isle of Wight, England. The holotype fossil was described by re-examining a specimen in the Smith Collection.^[6][7]

References

1. "Tribe Bombini - Bumble Bees". BugGuide. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
2. "Tribe Bombini Latreille 1802 (bee)". FossilWorks. Archived from the original on 5 January 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
3. Dehon, Manuel; Michez, Denis; Nel, Andre; Engel, Michael S.; De Meulemeester, Thibaut (2014). "Wing Shape of Four New Bee Fossils (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) Provides Insights to Bee Evolution". PLOS ONE. 9 (10): e108865. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9j8865D. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0108865. PMC 4212905. PMID 25354170.
4. "Bombus florissantensis Cockerell 1906 (bumble bee)". FossilWorks. Archived from the original on 5 January 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
5. Cockerell, T. D. A. (1906). "Fossil Hymenoptera from Florissant, Colorado". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 50 (2): 33–58.
6. "†Oligobombus Antropov 2014 (bee)". FossilWorks. Archived from the original on 21 April 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
7. Antropov, A. V.; et al. (May 2014). "The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight" (PDF). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 104 (3–4): 335–446. doi:10.1017/S1755691014000103. S2CID 85699800.

Sources

• C. D. Michener (2000) The Bees of the World, Johns Hopkins University Press.