Bombus randeckensis

{{Short description|Extinct species of bee}}

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| fossil_range = Mid - Late Miocene
{{fossil_range|18|16}}

| image = Dehon et al 2019 Zookeys Fig2-B Bombus (Cullumanobombus) randeckensis.jpg

| image_caption = B. randeckensis holotype wing

| genus = Bombus

| parent = Bombus (Cullumanobombus)

| species = randeckensis

| authority = Wappler & Engel, 2012

| extinct = yes

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Bombus randeckensis is an extinct bumblebee from the Miocene rocks of the Randeck Maar in southwestern Germany. It was discovered in 2012, and initially placed in the subgenus Bombus,{{cite journal |last1=Wappler |first1=Torsten |last2=De Meulemeester |first2=Thibaut |last3=Aytekin |first3=A. Murat |last4=Michez |first4=Denis |last5=Engel |first5=Michael S. |title=Geometric morphometric analysis of a new Miocene bumble bee from the Randeck Maar of southwestern Germany (Hymenoptera: Apidae) |journal=Systematic Entomology |date=2012 |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=784–792 |url=http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thibaut_De_Meulemeester/publication/233726151_Geometric_morphometric_analysis_of_a_new_Miocene_bumble_bee_from_the_Randeck_Maar_of_southwestern_Germany_%2528Hymenoptera_Apidae%2529/links/0912f50acac4873941000000.pdf |doi=10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00642.x |bibcode=2012SysEn..37..784W |s2cid=84979697 }} however, review of the Bombini fossil record by Dehon et al in 2019 concluded B. randeckensis should be placed in Bombus subgenus Cullumanobombus.{{cite journal |last1=Dehon |first1=M. |last2=Engel |first2=M. |last3=Gérard |first3=M. |last4=Aytekin |first4=A. |last5=Ghisbain |first5=G. |last6=Williams |first6=P. |last7=Rasmont |first7=P. |last8=Michez |first8=D. |year=2019 |title=Morphometric analysis of fossil bumble bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombini) reveals their taxonomic affinities |journal=ZooKeys |volume=891 |pages=71–118 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.891.36027 |doi-access=free|hdl=1808/30495 |hdl-access=free }}