A. Murat Aytekin

TL;DR: This is the first review of the entire subgenus Bombus to avoid fixed a priori assumptions concerning the limits of the problematic species and to diagnose all of the putative species throughout their global ranges and to map the extent of these geographic ranges.

TL;DR: Out of the sixteen species identified, two belonged to the genus Sergentomyia: S. dentata and S. theodori and the proven vector P. sergenti is a widely distributed species throughout southern Anatolia and this species, together with its closely related species P. similis, shows sympatry in Konya Province.

TL;DR: Wing shape in both male and female adults, using 22 landmarks on the wing in relation to ecological parameters, including the development rate, showed that although wings of females became narrower dorsoventrally as the temperature increased, they became broader in males.

TL;DR: Les auteurs ont re-examine le statut d'espece de bourdons de la zone palearctique occidentale appartenant au sous-genre Siricobombus Vogt d'alors que B. sulfureus sont tres differentes de celles de B. niveatus et B. vorticosus, nous n'avons pas trouve de difference significative entre ces dern

TL;DR: The first fossil bumble bee from the Miocene Randeck Maar of southwestern Germany is described and illustrated and shows that extant subgenera of bumblebees were already derived in the early/middle Miocene.