Recognition and identification of bumblebee species in the Bombus lucorum-complex (Hymenoptera, Apidae) – A review and outlook

Silas Bossert

doi:10.3897/dez.62.9000

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Nuria Blasco-Lavilla, Concepción Ornosa, Denis Michez, Pilar De la Rúa (2019)
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Lucyna Twerd, Piotr Szefer, Anna Sobieraj-Betlińska, Piotr Olszewski (2021)
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El código de barras de ADN confirma la distribución de Bombus magnus (Vogt, 1911) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) en la península Ibérica. Graellsia 75: 083.

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GS Potapov, YuS Kolosova (2019)
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Anna Sobieraj-Betlińska, Lucyna Twerd (2024)
Are parks as favourable habitats for wild bees as wastelands in watercourse valleys of a large city?. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 99: 128450.

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Paweł Michołap, Aneta Sikora, Marcin Sikora, Krzysztof Zając, Marcin Kadej (2024)
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Grigory S. Potapov, Yulia S. Kolosova (2016)
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Grigory Potapov, Yulia Kolosova, Alisa Vlasova (2018)
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Galina V. Bovykina, Grigory S. Potapov, Yulia S. Kolosova, Alexander V. Kondakov (2024)
RCR-RFLP approach for identification of cryptic species of Bombus lucorum-complex in Northern European Russia. Ecologica Montenegrina 77: 132.

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YuS Kolosova, GS Potapov, NA Zubrii, MYu Gofarov, OD Kovalev, OV Aksenova, SE Sokolova, OV Travina, AR Shevchenko, OD Kononov (2019)
Contribution to the knowledge of the bumblebee fauna in the Southern Taymyr. Arctic Environmental Research 19: 146.

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