Bombus hyperboreus

Taxobox
name = "Bombus polaris"


image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hymenoptera
familia = Apidae
genus = "Bombus"
species = "B. hyperboreus"
binomial = "Bombus hyperboreus"
binomial_authority = Schönherr, 1809

"Bombus hyperboreus" is a bumblebee species native to northern Canada and the United States.

Bombus hyperboreus is a parasite in the nests of a different bumblebee species, "Bombus polaris." [Milliron H.E., Oliver D.R. (1966) Bumblebees from northern Ellesmere Island, with observations on usurpation by "Megabombus hyperboreus" (Schönh.), Can. Entomol. 98:207–213]

References

[http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/bombus/index.html Natural Museum of the World, Bombus] .

Integrated Taxonomic Information System TSN [http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=714811 714811]