Bombus lucorum: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the Bombus lucorum lives – recorded in 12 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Bombus lucorum
Group	Bees, wasps & ants
Found in	12 countries
Continents	Europe
Class	Insect
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Apidae

Where does the Bombus lucorum live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the Bombus lucorum in 12 countries and territories across Europe. Wikidata gives its range as: Luxembourg.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

What kind of animal is the Bombus lucorum?

The Bombus lucorum (Bombus lucorum) is an insect in the order Hymenoptera and the family Apidae, genus Bombus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the Bombus lucorum

Bombus lucorum, the white-tailed bumblebee, is a species of bumblebee, widespread and common throughout Europe. This name has been widely used for a range of nearly identical-looking or cryptic species of bumblebees. In 1983, Scholl and Obrecht even coined the term Bombus lucorum complex to explain the three taxa (B. lucorum, Bombus magnus, and Bombus cryptarum) that cannot be easily differentiated from one another by their appearances. A recent review of all of these species worldwide has helped to clarify its distribution in Europe and northern Asia, almost to the Pacific. B. lucorum reaches the Barents Sea in the North. However, in southern Europe, although found in Greece it is an upland species with its distribution never quite reaching the Mediterranean.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Bombus lucorum (revision 1363386209), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q1602859 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).