Bombus Latreille, 1802
(bumble bees or humble bees & cuckoo bees)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Bombus s.s. bumble bees, humble bees					Subgenus	12 subtaxa	160 images	10 ident. refs
Bombus (Psithyrus) cuckoo bees					Subgenus	5 subtaxa	72 images	2 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Bombus (bumble bees or humble bees & cuckoo bees)
Family	APIDAE (bees)
Superfamily	APOIDEA (solitary and hive bees)
Infraorder	Aculeata (aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)
Suborder	APOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
Order	HYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Bombus is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Anon.		Bumblebee pages	www.bumblebee.org
	Benton, E.	2006	Bumblebees	New Naturalists, 98, Collins
	Edwards, M. & Jenner, M.	2005	Field Guide to Bumblebees of Great Britain and Ireland	108pp
in the field()	Falk, S.	2011	Warwickshire’s bumblebees
in the field()	Prys-Jones, O.E. & Corbet, S.A.	1987	Bumblebees	Naturalists’ Handbooks, 6, 92pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
	Ptácek, V. & Zaludová, R.		Bumble bees	www.sci.muni.cz/ptacek/bombi.htm

Bombus (bumble bees or humble bees & cuckoo bees) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

APOIDEA
(solitary and hive bees)

Aculeata
(aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)

APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)

HYMENOPTERA
(ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Bombus (bumble bees or humble bees & cuckoo bees)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 78 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Bombus (bumble bees or humble bees & cuckoo bees)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Bombus is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)