Bombus vandykei, the Van Dyke's bumblebee, is a species of bumble bees in the family Apidae. It is found in North America.
The IUCN conservation status of Bombus vandykei is "LC", least concern, with no immediate threat to the species' survival. The population is stable.Sharkey M.J. (2007). Phylogeny and Classification of Hymenoptera."Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera", Sharkey M.J., Carpenter J.M., Vilhelmsen L., et al. 2012. Cladistics 28(1): 80-112.
References
Krombein, Karl V., Paul D. Hurd Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks (1979). Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico, vol. 2: Apocrita (Aculeata), xvi + 1199–2209. Williams, P. H. (1998). "An annotated checklist of bumble bees with an analysis of patterns of description (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini)". Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Entomology), vol. 67, no. 1, 79–152.
Further reading
Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
External links
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Bombus vandykei