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Bombus (Fervidobombus) pennsylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)
Apis pensylvanica De Geer, C. (1773). Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes. Stockholm: Hesselberg Vol. 3 696 pp. [575] .
Type data: lectotype NHRM <F>.
Subsequent designation: Milliron, H. E. (1960). Recognition of bumblebee type specimens, with notes on some dubious names (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Bull. Brooklyn Entomol. Soc. 55 (4): 87-99 [95] .
Type locality: USA, Pennsylvania.

Bombus sonorus Say, T. (1837). Descriptions of new species of North American Hymenoptera, and observations on some already described. Boston J. Nat. Hist. 1 (4): 393-416 [413] .
Type data: holotype <F> (Type lost).
Type locality: Mexico.

Distribution

Nearctic Region: Canada (Ontario), Mexico (Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, México, Nuevo León, Querétaro de Arteaga, Sonora, Zacatecas), United States of America; Neotropical Region: Guatemala, Mexico (Chiapas, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Veracruz)

References

Abrahamovich, A. H. & Díaz, N. B. (2002). Bumble bees of the Neotropical Region (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Biota Colombiana 3 (2): 199-214 [206] (Distribution rectification)
Abrahamovich, A. H., Diaz, N. B., Morrone, J. J. (2004). Distributional patterns of the Neotropical and Andean species of the genus Bombus (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Acta Zool. Mex. (n. s.) 20 (1): 99-117 [109, 114] (Distribution, biogeography)
Ayala, R., Griswold, T. L. & Yanega, D. (1996). Apoidea (Hymenoptera) pp. 423-464 in Llorente, J., García-Aldrete, A.N. & González-Soriano, E. (ed.) Biodiversidad, Taxonomía y Biogeografía de Artrópodos Mexicanos: Hacia una Síntesis de su Conocimiento. Mexico: IBUNAM/ UNAM/ CONABIO [463] (Listed, distribution, as pensylvanicus and as pensylvanicus sonorus)
Cresson, E. T. (1863). List of the North American species of Bombus and Apathus. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Phila. 2: 83-116 [94] (partim, emendation)
Franklin, H. J. (1915). Notes on Bombidae, with descriptions of new forms (Hym.). Entomol. News 26: 409–416 [414] (Distribution record)
Handlirsch, A. (1888). Die Hummelsammlung des k.k. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. Ann. K-K. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 3 (3): 209-250 [238] (partim)
Labougle, J. M. (1990). Bombus of México and Central America (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 54 (3): 35-73 [52, 56, 67] (Comparative notes, taxonomy (as pennsylvanicus sonorus and as pennsylvanicus pennsylvanicus), distribution, note on type locality of sonorus, map)
Labougle, J. M., Ito, M. & Okazawa, T. (1985). The species of the genus Bombus (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of Chiapas, Mexico and Guatemala; with a morphometric and altitudinal analysis. Folia Entomol. Mex. 64: 55–72 [65] (Distribution, note, as pennsylvanicus [sic])
Milliron, H. E. (1960). Recognition of bumblebee type specimens, with notes on some dubious names (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Bull. Brooklyn Entomol. Soc. 55 (4): 87-99 [95] (Note on type material, as pennsylvanica)
Milliron, H. E. (1961). Revised classification of the bumblebees - a synopsis (Hymenoptera: Apidae). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 34 (2): 49-61 [57] (Taxonomy, as Megabombus (M.))
Milliron, H. E. (1973). A monograph of the Western Hemisphere bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Bombinae). II. The genus Megabombus subgenus Megabombus. Mem. Entomol. Soc. Can. 89: 81-237 [190, 193] (Taxonomy, synonymy, redescription, flower records, distribution, as pensylvanicus and as pensylvanicus sonorus)
Peters, D. S. (1968). Beiträge zur Kenntnis aculeater Hymenopteren von Mexiko. I. Apinae (Apidae, Apoidea). Senckenb. Biol. 49 (3/4): 237-248 [244] (Distribution record, biology, as pennsylvanicus)
Williams, P. H. (1998). An annotated checklist of bumble bees with an analysis of patterns of description (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini). Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Lond. (Entomol.) 67 (1): 79-152 [111] (Taxonomy, distribution, notes on nomenclature)

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