Insects of Britain and Ireland: the bumblebees and cuckoo bees (Bombus and Psithyrus)

L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz

Contents

This contents page, the key, and the descriptions were generated automatically from a DELTA database (Dallwitz 1980; Dallwitz, Paine, and Zurcher 1993).

Introduction

Interactive key, including interactive information retrieval • Hints on using the interactive key

The interactive key is easy to use, allows free choice of characters, and can lead to correct identifications in spite of occasional errors. It can display all the illustrations, full and partial descriptions, diagnostic descriptions, differences and similarities between taxa, lists of taxa exhibiting or lacking specified attributes, and distributions of character states within any set of taxa.

Character list •  General morphology of Hymenoptera • Implicit attributes • DELTA data files

Notes on John Curtis’s British Entomology • Updated insect names for John Curtis’s British Entomology • Updated plant names for John Curtis’s British Entomology • Notes on the scanning of the images

Poems on insects by Giles Watson

Acknowledgements • References • Citation • Contacts, conditions of use, contributions

Descriptions

The bold parts in the descriptions are diagnostic descriptions, generated with the aid of Intkey (Dallwitz, Paine, and Zurcher 1995, 2000). They distinguish most taxa in at least three respects from the other taxa.

We advise against extracting comparative information from the descriptions. This is much more easily achieved using the DELTA data files or the interactive key. See also Guidelines for using data taken from Web publications.

• Bombus Latreille • Bombus cullumanus (Kirby) • Bombus distinguendus Morawitz • Bombus hortorum (Linnaeus) • Bombus humilis Illiger • Bombus hypnorum (Linnaeus) • Bombus jonellus (Kirby) • Bombus lapidarius (Linnaeus) • Bombus lucorum (Linnaeus) • Bombus monticola Smith • Bombus muscorum (Linnaeus) • Bombus pascuorum (Scopoli) • Bombus pomorum (Panzer) • Bombus pratorum (Linnaeus) • Bombus ruderarius (Müller • Bombus ruderatus (Fabricius) • Bombus soroeensis (Fabricius) • Bombus subterraneus (Linnaeus) • Bombus sylvarum (Linnaeus) • Bombus terrestris (Linnaeus)

• Psithyrus Lepeletier • Psithyrus barbutellus (Kirby) • Psithyrus bohemicus (Seidl) • Psithyrus campestris (Panzer) • Psithyrus rupestris (Fabricius) • Psithyrus sylvestris Lepeletier • Psithyrus vestalis (Geoffroy in Fourcroy)

Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. Insects of Britain and Ireland: the bumblebees and cuckoo bees (Bombus and Psithyrus). Version: 27th July 2019. delta-intkey.com’.

Insect groups treated separately in the ‘Insects of Britain and Ireland’ package

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