Steppe bumblebee

Steppe bumblebee
	Bombus fragrans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animals
Type of:	Arthropods
Grade:	Insects
Squad:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Real bees
Gender:	Bumblebees
View:	Steppe bumblebee
Latin name
	Bombus fragrans ; ( Pallas , 1771 )

Steppe bumblebee ^[1] ( lat. Bombus fragrans ) - a species of bumblebee .

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Description

The light yellow color of the hairs (occiput, front of the back, scutellum and tergites of the abdomen) predominates. Most of the head, a transverse band on the back between the bases of the wings, legs and lower body in black hairs.

Distribution

Slovakia , Hungary , eastern Turkey , Ukraine , Transcaucasia , Kazakhstan , western China , northern Mongolia ; in Russia - forest-steppes and steppes of the European part, the extreme south of the West. Siberia.

Red Book

It has become rare and is listed in the Red Book of Russia - Category: 2 - the species is declining in number (and earlier in the Red Book of the USSR) ^[2] , Ukraine. Also included in the Red Book of the Voronezh region. ^[3]

Notes

↑ Panfilov D.V., Berezin M.V. Steppe Bumblebee - Bombus fragrans (Pallas, 1771) (Russian) . Date of treatment January 14, 2012. Archived April 23, 2012.
↑ Red Book of the Russian Federation
↑ RESOLUTION of the Administration of the Voronezh region. dated 01.07.2008 N 561 “On the Red Book of the Voronezh Region” (together with the “Regulations on the Red Book of the Voronezh Region”)

Links

[1] Panfilov D.V., Berezin M.V. Steppe Bumblebee - Bombus fragrans (Pallas, 1771) (Russian) . Date of treatment January 14, 2012. Archived April 23, 2012.

[2] Red Book of the Russian Federation

[voronezh-3] RESOLUTION of the Administration of the Voronezh region. dated 01.07.2008 N 561 “On the Red Book of the Voronezh Region” (together with the “Regulations on the Red Book of the Voronezh Region”)