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    (c) paulsch, all rights reserved

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    (c) Anita Sprungk, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Jakob Fahr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Ina Siebert, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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White-tailed Bumble Bee

Bombus lucorum

Worldwide
18,095 observations
Group
Insects
iNaturalist Wikipedia

About

Bombus lucorum, the white-tailed bumblebee, is a species of bumblebee, widespread and common throughout Europe. This name has been widely used for a range of nearly identical-looking or cryptic species of bumblebees. In 1983, Scholl and Obrecht even coined the term Bombus lucorum complex to explain the three taxa (B. lucorum, Bombus magnus, and Bombus cryptarum) that cannot be easily differentiated from one another by their appearances. A recent review of all of these species worldwide...

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