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Bombus sitkensis Nylander, 1848
Bombus oregonensis Cresson, 1878; Bombus mixtuosus Ashmead, 1902

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Subgenus: Pyrobombus



Bombus sitkensis, female, face
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Bombus sitkensis, female, face

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Bombus sitkensis, female, side
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Bombus sitkensis, female, top
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Bombus sitkensis, female, wing
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Bombus sitkensis, female, wing
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Williams, Paul H., Robbin W. Thorp, Leif L. Richardson, and Sheila R. Colla. Bumble Bees of North America: An Identification Guide. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wpzr9.


- has the best modern color guides for identification of both sexes, microscopic identification characters, range and natural history notes.


Known as the Sitka Bumble Bee.

Identification
Extracted from Jonathan Koch, James Strange, Paul Williams.2012. Bumble Bees of the Western United States. A product of the U.S. Forest Service and the Pollinator Partnership with funding from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

Status: Common

Select food plant genera: Ebilobium, Lupinus, Rubus, Rosa, Vicia, Rhododendron

Tongue Length: Medium

Distribution: Almost exclusive to Pacific coastline in the U.S. except for populations found in the Sawtooth wilderness of northern Idaho

Can be confused with B. flavifrons, B. mixtus, and B. melanopygus.

Females (queens and workers, colors refer to hair)

Thorax anterior to the wing bases black and yellow intermixed (clouded), scutellum black, sometimes with yellow/white intermixed laterally, T1-2 yellow, T3 black, T4-5 with pale hairs, face square.

Mid leg basitarsus with the distal posterior corner rounded. Cheek length longer than broad. Hair of the face and top of head with black and yellow intermixed, ocelli large and at supraorbital line. On the side of the thorax, the lower anterior surface with black and yellow intermixed (cloudy). Corbicular fringes long and with yellowish-red hairs. Hair length medium and uneven.



Names
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FamilyScientific name @ source (records)
Asteraceae  Aster @ AMNH_BEE (1)

Centaurea sp @ BBSL (3)

Centaurea @ LACM_ENTB (3)

Cirsium vulgare @ BMEC_ENT (1)

Senecio crassulus @ BBSL__MOSCOW (1)

Senecio sp @ BBSL (1)

Solidago @ AMNH_BEE (1)
Brassicaceae  Brassica @ EMEC (1)

Raphanus sativus @ EMEC (1)
Caprifoliaceae  Symphoricarpos albus @ BBSL (2)
Clusiaceae  Hypericum perforatum @ BBSL (1)
Ericaceae  Gaultheria shallon @ BBSL (1)

Rhododendron macrophyllum @ BBSL (5)

Rhododendron @ AMNH_BEE (2)

Vaccinium ovatum @ EMEC (1)

Vaccinium @ EMEC (10)
Fabaceae  Lathyrus sp @ BBSL (1)

Lupinus sp @ BBSL (14)

Trifolium sp @ BBSL (1)

Vicia gigantea @ BBSL (6)

Vicia @ EMEC (3)
Freilich, j.  1420 @ JRYA__OLYM (1)
Grossulariaceae  Ribes sanguineum @ AMNH_BEE (2)

Ribes @ AMNH_BEE (5)
Herndon, j.d.  1402 @ JRYA__OLYM (1)

1449 @ JRYA__OLYM (1)

1476 @ JRYA__OLYM (4)

1487 @ JRYA__OLYM (2)

1537 @ JRYA__OLYM (1)
Hydrophyllaceae  Phacelia leptosepala @ BBSL (1)
Lamiaceae  Agastache sp @ BBSL (1)

Stachys bullata @ UCRC_ENT (1)
Onagraceae  Epilobium angustifolium @ BBSL (71)

Gayophytum diffusum @ EMEC (1)
Primulaceae  Dodecatheon alpinum @ BBSL (1)
Rhamnaceae  Ceanothus @ AMNH_BEE (3)
Rosaceae  Rosa sp @ BBSL (7)

Rubus allegheniensis @ BBSL (3)

Rubus parviflorus @ BBSL (3)

Rubus sp @ BBSL (6)

Rubus @ EMEC (1)

Spiraea douglasii @ BBSL (1)
Rykken, j.  1348 @ JRYA__OLYM (1)

1373 @ JRYA__OLYM (1)

1379 @ JRYA__OLYM (1)

1450 @ JRYA__OLYM (1)

145 @ JRYA__NOCA (12)

1487 @ JRYA__OLYM (1)

1511 @ JRYA__NOCA (5)

153 @ JRYA__NOCA (3)

154 @ JRYA__NOCA (1)

1669 @ JRYA__OLYM (1)

1670 @ JRYA__OLYM (1)

1745 @ JRYA__NOCA (2)

198 @ JRYA__OLYM (1)

228 @ JRYA__OLYM (1)

507 @ JRYA__NOCA (3)
Salicaceae  Salix @ EMEC (1)
Scrophulariaceae  Pedicularis groenlandica @ BBSL (1)

Scrophularia californica @ BBSL (3); LACM_ENTB (8)

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