BumbleKey: an interactive key for the identification of bumblebees of Italy and Corsica (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

Andree Cappellari; Maurizio Mei; Massimo Lopresti; Pierfilippo Cerretti

doi:10.3897/zookeys.784.25765

BumbleKey: an interactive key for the identification of bumblebees of Italy and Corsica (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

Zookeys. 2018 Sep 12:(784):127-138. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.784.25765. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Andree Cappellari¹, Maurizio Mei¹, Massimo Lopresti², Pierfilippo Cerretti¹

Affiliations

¹ Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "Charles Darwin", Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy.
² CUTFAA, Raggruppamento Carabinieri Biodiversità, Via Carlo Ederle 16/A, 37100, Verona, Italy.

Abstract

BumbleKey is a matrix-based, interactive key to all 45 species of bumblebees of Italy and Corsica. The key allows to identify adult males and females (queens and workers) using morphological characters. The key is published online, open-access, at http://www.interactive-keys.eu/bumblekey/default.aspx.

Keywords: Bombus; Italy; bumblebee; identification tool; interactive key.