Bombus terrestris subsp. lusitanicus Kruger 1956
Creators: name: Ornosa, Concepción
name: Torres, Félix
name: Rúa, Pilar De La
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus terrestris
Bombus terrestris lusitanicus krüger, 1956

description: Bombus terrestris lusitanicus Krüger, 1956
Common subspecies, distributed throughout the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, southern France and Madeira, with a wide elevational range, from 0 to 3000 m (Ornosa & Sanchez Ortiz, 2004).
At present it has been collected in the Pyrenees in a broad ecological range (even in windy conditions and low temperatures not exceeding 9 °C) in forest biotopes and borders in meadows with subalpine scrubland, screes, slopes runoff and supraforestal pastures, on Achilegia vulgaris L., Epilobium angustifolium L., Aconitum vulparia Reich., Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.), Buglossoides arvensis (L.) I. M. Johns., Campanula glomerata L., Carduus acanthoides L., Carlina acaulis L., Centaurea scabiosa L., Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten., Cirsium acaule (L.) Scop., Cirsium monspessulanum (L.) Hill, Digitalis purpurea L., Echium plantagineum (Nox.), Echium vulgare L., Epilobium angustifolium L., Eryngium bourgatii Gouan., Phlomis lychnitis L., Gentiana alpina Vill., Iris latifolia L., Lathyrus pratensis L., Linaria badali Willk., Lotus corniculatus L., Medicago sativa L., Marrubium vulgare L, Onobrichis vicifolia Scop., Origanum vulgare L., Prunella vulgaris L., Reseda lutea L., Rhododendron ferrugineum L., Rubus ulmifolius Schott, Sempervirum montanum L., Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq., Taraxacum officinale Wigg., Trifolium pratense L., Trifolium repens L., Vaccinium myrtillus L., Vicia cracca L. and Viola odorata L.
This bee is not regarded as being scarce or threatened (Table 2), on the contrary its populations are increasing in the Pyrenees and in the Iberian Peninsula, and its altitude range is expanding, being at present the widest in the peninsula (Ornosa & Ortiz-Sánchez 2004, Vargas et al. 2013).
New records. Andorra: Soldeu, 28-VII-2006, 10 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME.
Spain: Girona: Bellver de Cerdanya, 25-VII-2009, 5 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Camprodón, ski resort, 23-VII-2009, 4 males, 8 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; La Molina, Alabaus, 9-VII-2015, 1 worker, F. Torres leg., UCME; La Molina road, 25-VII-2009, 7 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; La Molina, ski resort, 25-VII-2009, 2 males, 14 workers; 9-VII-2015, 1 male; C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Nùria, Pic de l´ Àliga, 24-VII-2009, 6 males, 15 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Nùria, Bosc de la Verge, 24-VII-2009, 10 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME. Setcases, 23-VII-2009, 5 males, 5 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME. Huesca: Baños de Benasque, 14-VII-2011, 10 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Benasque, 15-VII-2011, 5 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Biescas, 10-VIII- 2014, 1 queen, 1 worker, P. De la Rúa leg., UMU; Canfranc, 3-VII-2006, 10 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Biescas, 9-VII-2009, 6 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Cerler, 13-VII-2011, 1 male, 1 queen, 3 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Chía, Mirador, Valle de Benasque, 14-VII-2011, 4 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Jaca, 11- VIII-2014, 3 workers, P. De la Rúa leg., UMU; Ordesa, pradera, 4-VII- 2 006, 2 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Ordesa, Gradas de Soaso, 4-VII-2006, 2 males, 10 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Ordesa, Laña Sarratieto, 10- VII-2013, 1 queen., F. Torres; UCME; Panticosa, 5-VI-2006, 2 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Panticosa, alto, 5- VI-2006, 1 worker, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Las Cutas track, 11-VII-2013, 1 queen, F. Torres leg., UCME; Sahún pass, 14-VII-2011, 6 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Santa Olaria, 9-VII-2013, 5 males, 1 queen, 1 worker, F. Torres leg., UCME; Selva de Oza, 2-V-2009, 1 queen; 10-VII-2009, 8 workers; C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Tramacastilla de Tena, 9-VII-2009, 6 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Vallibierna, 15-VII-2011, 10 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Zuriza, 5-VI-2006, 1 queen, 5 workers; 10-VII-2009, 2 queens, 4 males; 11-VII-2009, 1 queen, 14 workers; C. Ornosa leg., UCME. Lleida: Aigüestortes, threshold, 26-VII-2006, 5 males, 10 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Baqueira-Ruda, 27-VII-2006, 12 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Espot, 25-VII-2006, 1 worker, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Estany Sant Maurici, 26-VII-2006, 6 workers; 8-VII-2014, 2 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Ruda, track, 10-VII-2014, 1 worker, F. Torres, UCME. Son, 10-VII-2014, 1 male, Ornosa leg., UCME. Navarra: Abodi pass, 11-VII-2009, 4 males, 12 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Burguete: 11-VII-2009, 2 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME; Sierra de Irati, 11-VII-2009, 2 males, 6 workers, C. Ornosa leg., UCME.
description: Published as part of Ornosa, Concepción, Torres, Félix & Rúa, Pilar De La, 2017, Updated list of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from the Spanish Pyrenees with notes on their decline and conservation status, pp. 41-77 in Zootaxa 4237 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/322688