''Bombus ardens'', also known as the fire-tailed bumblebee, is a species of
bumblebee
A bumblebee (or bumble bee, bumble-bee, or humble-bee) is any of over 250 species in the genus ''Bombus'', part of Apidae, one of the bee families. This genus is the only Extant taxon, extant group in the tribe Bombini, though a few extinct r ...
found in Japan and Korea. It was
described in 1879 by
Frederick Smith in ''Descriptions of new species of Hymenoptera in the collection of the British museum''.
Taxonomy
''Bombus ardens'' contains the following subspecies:
* ''
Bombus ardens sakagamii''
* ''
Bombus ardens ardens''
References
Bumblebees
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