Discrimination of the Bumblebee Species Bombus cryptarum and B lucorum by means of Male Labial Gland Secretions and Morphological Characters (Hymenoptera: Apidae);Abgrenzung der Hummel-Arten Bombus cryptarum und B lucorum mittels männlicher Labialdrüsen-Sekrete und morphologischer Merkmale (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

Entomologia Generalis

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 129-145

  Bertsch, Andreas ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

2,3 dihydrofarnesol; B (T) cryptarum Fabricius 1775; B (T) lucorum Von Linn 1761; Bombus (Terrestribombus) terrestris Linnaeus 1758; Coloration; Labial gland secretion; Myristoleic acid ethyl ester; Proboscis; Terrestribombus Vogt 1911

Indexed keywords

APIDAE; BOMBUS CRYPTARUM; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; FABRICIUS; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0000228003     PISSN: 01718177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/entom.gen/22/1997/129     Document Type: Article

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