An Early Miocene bumble bee from northern Bohemia (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

Zookeys. 2017 Oct 19:(710):43-63. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.710.14714. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

A new species of fossil bumble bee (Apinae: Bombini) is described and figured from Early Miocene (Burdigalian) deposits of the Most Basin at the Bílina Mine, Czech Republic. Bombus trophoniussp. n., is placed within the subgenus Cullumanobombus Vogt and distinguished from the several species groups therein. The species is apparently most similar to the Nearctic B. (Cullumanobombus) rufocinctus Cresson, the earliest-diverging species within the clade and the two may be related only by symplesiomorphies. The age of the fossil is in rough accordance with divergence estimations for Cullumanobombus.

Keywords: Anthophila; Apoidea; Bombus; Burdigalian; Neogene; geometric morphometrics.