TY  - JOUR
A1  - Williams, Paul H.
A1  - Dorji, Phurpa
A1  - Ren, Zongxin
A1  - Xie, Zhenghua
A1  - Orr, Michael
T1  - Bumblebees of the hypnorum-complex world-wide including two new near-cryptic species (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
T2  - European journal of taxonomy
N2  - The hypnorum-complex of bumblebees (in the genus Bombus Latreille, 1802) has been interpreted as consisting of a single widespread Old-World species, Bombus hypnorum (Linnaeus, 1758) s. lat., and its closely similar sister species in the New World, B. perplexus Cresson, 1863. We examined barcodes for evidence of species’ gene coalescents within this species complex, using the closely related vagans-group to help calibrate Poisson-tree-process models to a level of branching appropriate for discovering species. The results support seven candidate species within the hypnorum-complex (Bombus taiwanensis Williams, Sung, Lin & Lu, 2022, B. wolongensis Williams, Ren & Xie sp. nov., B. bryorum Richards, 1930, B. hypnorum, B. koropokkrus Sakagami & Ishikawa, 1972, and B. hengduanensis Williams, Ren & Xie sp. nov., plus B. perplexus), which are comparable in status to the currently accepted species of the vagans-group. Morphological corroboration of the coalescent candidate species is subtle but supports the gene coalescents if these candidates are considered near-cryptic species.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 847:46–72 
KW  - barcode
KW  - bumblebee
KW  - coalescent
KW  - distribution
KW  - species
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/68851
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-688514
SN  - 2118-9773
VL  - 2022
IS  - 847
SP  - 46
EP  - 72
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -