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Bombus alpinus  (Linnaeus, 1758)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 714857

 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s): Apis alpina Linnaeus, 1758
  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  -- Animal, animals, animaux  
    PhylumArthropoda  -- arthropodes, arthropods, Artrópode  
       SubphylumHexapoda  -- hexapods  
          ClassInsecta  -- hexapoda, insectes, insects, inseto  
             SubclassPterygota  -- insects ailés, winged insects  
                InfraclassNeoptera  -- modern, wing-folding insects  
                   OrderHymenoptera  -- abelha, ants, bees, formiga, vespa, wasps  
                      SuborderApocrita  -- abeilles, ants, bees, fourmis, guêpes véritables, narrow-waisted hymenopterans, true wasps  
                         InfraorderAculeata   
                            SuperfamilyApoidea  -- apoid wasps, bees, sphecoid wasps  
                               FamilyApidae  -- bumble bees, euglossine, euglossines, honey bees, stingless bees  
                                  SubfamilyApinae   
                                     TribeBombini   
                                        GenusBombus Latreille, 1802 -- bumble bees, bumblebees  
                                           SpeciesBombus alpinus (Linnaeus, 1758)  
       

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  Source: Bombus - bumblebees of the world, website (version 16-Nov-06)  
  Acquired: 2006   
  Notes: Maintained by Paul Williams, and available at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/bombus/index.html   
  Reference for: Bombus alpinus   
       
  Source: World Bee Checklist Project - update 2008-09, manuscript (version 10/09/2008)  
  Acquired: 2008   
  Notes: John Ascher, Connal Eardley, Terry Griswold, Gabriel Melo, Andrew Polaszek, Michael Ruggiero, Paul Williams, Ken Walker, and Natapot Warrit. Additional credits noted at: http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?act=x_guide_credit&guide=Apoidea_species   
  Reference for: Bombus alpinus   
       
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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Williams, P. H.   
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: An annotated checklist of bumble bees with an analysis of patterns of description (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Entomology), vol. 67, no. 1   
  Page(s): 79-152   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0968-0454   
  Notes: updated at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/bombus/index.html   
  Reference for: Bombus alpinus   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China)  
       
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