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High Arctic Bumble Bee

Bombus hyperboreus

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Apidae

Bombus hyperboreus is a species of Arctic bumblebee with a circumpolar distribution. The species is primarily found in the arctic areas of Canada, Greenland, northern Scandinavia, and Russia. In 2015, Bombus natvigi, from the Nearctic, was separated from this species, based on genetic analysis.

Distribution

(c) Jan Ove Gjershaug/Norsk institutt for naturforskning, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
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