Resolving the species status of overlooked West‐Palaearctic bumblebees
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61388963%3A_____%2F21%3A00541678" target="_blank" >RIV/61388963:_____/21:00541678 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41340/21:89358
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12486" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12486</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12486" target="_blank" >10.1111/zsc.12486</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Resolving the species status of overlooked West‐Palaearctic bumblebees
Original language description
Multisource approaches in taxonomy gather different lines of evidence in order to draw strongly supported taxonomic conclusions and constitute the basis of integrative taxonomy. In the case of overlooked taxa with disjunct distributions for which sampling is more challenging, integrative approaches help to propose stable hypotheses at the species and subspecies levels. Here, based on genetic and semio‐chemical traits, we performed an integrative taxonomic analysis to evaluate species delimitation hypotheses within a monophyletic group of bumblebees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus) including the formerly recognised subgenera Eversmannibombus, Laesobombus and Mucidobombus which are now included in the subgenus Thoracobombus. Our results demonstrate the conspecificity of several polytypic taxa, and we formally recognise the subspecies Bombus laesus aliceae comb. nov. Cockerell, 1931, endemic to North Africa, based on its allopatry, unique mitochondrial haplotype and divergent cephalic labial gland secretions. This highlights the need to maintain studying polytypic complexes of bumblebee taxa for which phylogenetic relationships could be still entangled and eventually implement conservation strategies for taxonomically differentiated lineages.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10616 - Entomology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Zoologica Scripta
ISSN
0300-3256
e-ISSN
1463-6409
Volume of the periodical
50
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
616-632
UT code for WoS article
000633610400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85103157289