Bombini
{{Short description|Tribe of bees}}
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| authority = Latreille 1802
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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,{{cite web|title=Tribe Bombini - Bumble Bees|url=http://bugguide.net/node/view/15029|publisher=BugGuide|accessdate=18 February 2015}} and some extinct genera such as Calyptapis and Oligobombus.{{cite web |title=Tribe Bombini Latreille 1802 (bee) |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=179693 |publisher=FossilWorks |access-date=17 December 2021 |archive-date=5 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105120517/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=179693 |url-status=live }} The tribe was described by Pierre André Latreille in 1802.
Fossils
File:Dehon et al 2019 Zookeys Fig1-A Oligobombus cuspidatus.jpg]]
Bombus cerdanyensis was described from Late Miocene lacustrine beds of La Cerdanya, Spain in 2014.{{cite journal |last1=Dehon |first1=Manuel |last2=Michez |first2=Denis |last3=Nel |first3=Andre |last4=Engel |first4=Michael S. |last5=De Meulemeester |first5=Thibaut |title=Wing Shape of Four New Bee Fossils (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) Provides Insights to Bee Evolution |journal=PLOS ONE |date=2014 |volume=9 |issue=10 |pmc=4212905 |pmid=25354170 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0108865 |pages=e108865|bibcode=2014PLoSO...9j8865D |doi-access=free }}
Calyptapis florissantensis was described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1906 from the Chadronian (Eocene) lacustrine – large shale of Florissant in the US.{{cite web |title=Bombus florissantensis Cockerell 1906 (bumble bee) |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=179693 |publisher=FossilWorks |access-date=17 December 2021 |archive-date=5 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105120517/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=179693 |url-status=live }}{{cite journal| author=Cockerell, T. D. A. | year=1906 | title=Fossil Hymenoptera from Florissant, Colorado | journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology | volume=50 | issue=2 | pages=33–58}}
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.{{cite web |title=†Oligobombus Antropov 2014 (bee) |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=298444 |publisher=FossilWorks |access-date=17 December 2021 |archive-date=21 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421160200/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=298444 |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |last1=Antropov |first1=A. V. |title=The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight |journal=Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |date=May 2014|volume=104 |issue=3–4 |pages=335–446 |doi=10.1017/S1755691014000103 |s2cid=85699800 |url=http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/80030/1/2014_Archaeagaon%5B1%5D.pdf |display-authors=etal}}
References
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Sources
- C. D. Michener (2000) The Bees of the World, Johns Hopkins University Press.
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