Bombus lapidarius

Red-tailed bumblebee
	Queen
	Drone
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Apidae
Genus:	Bombus
Subgenus:	Melanobombus
Species:	B. lapidarius
Binomial name
	Bombus lapidarius; (Linnaeus, 1758)

Bombus lapidarius is a species of bumblebee in the subgenus Melanobombus. Commonly known as the red-tailed bumblebee, B. lapidarius can be found throughout much of Central Europe. Known for its distinctive black and red body, this social bee is important in pollination.^[2]

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^ Lecocq, Thomas (December 2013). "Scent of a break-up: phylogeny and reproductive trait differences in the red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (263): 263. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-263. PMC 4219352. PMID 24295171.

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[Scent-2] Lecocq, Thomas (December 2013). "Scent of a break-up: phylogeny and reproductive trait differences in the red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (263): 263. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-263. PMC 4219352. PMID 24295171.

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