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{{Short description|Tribe of bees}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image =Bumblebee 05.JPG
| image_caption = ''Bombus'' species
| taxon = Bombini
| authority = [[Pierre André Latreille|Latreille]] 1802
| display_parents = 2
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision  =
*''[[Bombus]]''
*[[extinction|†]] ''[[Calyptapis]]''
*[[extinction|†]] ''[[Oligobombus]]''
}}
The '''Bombini''' are a tribe of large bristly [[Apidae|apid]] bees which feed on [[pollen]] or [[nectar]]. Many species are social, forming nests of up to a few hundred individuals; other species, formerly classified as ''[[Psithyrus]]'' cuckoo bees, are [[brood parasite]]s of nest-making species. The tribe contains a single living genus, ''[[Bombus]]'', the bumblebees,<ref>{{cite web|title=Tribe Bombini - Bumble Bees|url=http://bugguide.net/node/view/15029|publisher=BugGuide|accessdate=18 February 2015}}</ref> and some extinct genera such as ''[[Calyptapis]]'' and ''[[Oligobombus]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tribe Bombini Latreille 1802 (bee) |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=179693 |publisher=FossilWorks |access-date=17 December 2021 |archive-date=5 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105120517/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=179693 |url-status=live }}</ref> The tribe was described by [[Pierre André Latreille]] in 1802.
==Fossils==
[[File:Dehon et al 2019 Zookeys Fig1-A Oligobombus cuspidatus.jpg|thumb|left|upright|''[[Oligobombus cuspidatus]]'']]
''[[Bombus cerdanyensis]]'' was described from Late [[Miocene]] [[lacustrine plain|lacustrine]] beds of [[La Cerdanya]], Spain in 2014.<ref name=Dehon>{{cite journal |last1=Dehon |first1=Manuel |last2=Michez |first2=Denis |last3=Nel |first3=Andre |last4=Engel |first4=Michael S. |last5=De Meulemeester |first5=Thibaut |title=Wing Shape of Four New Bee Fossils (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) Provides Insights to Bee Evolution |journal=PLOS ONE |date=2014 |volume=9 |issue=10  |pmc=4212905 |pmid=25354170 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0108865 |pages=e108865|bibcode=2014PLoSO...9j8865D |doi-access=free }}</ref>
''[[Calyptapis florissantensis]]'' was described by [[Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell]] in 1906 from the Chadronian ([[Eocene]]) lacustrine – large shale of [[Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument|Florissant]] in the US.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Bombus florissantensis'' Cockerell 1906 (bumble bee) |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=179693 |publisher=FossilWorks |access-date=17 December 2021 |archive-date=5 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105120517/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=179693 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| author=Cockerell, T. D. A. | year=1906 | title=Fossil Hymenoptera from Florissant, Colorado | journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology | volume=50 | issue=2 | pages=33–58}}</ref>
''[[Oligobombus cuspidatus]]'' was described by Antropov ''et al'' (2014) from the [[Late Eocene]] Insect Bed of the [[Bembridge Marls]] on the [[Isle of Wight]], England. The holotype fossil was described by re-examining a specimen in the Smith Collection.<ref>{{cite web |title=†''Oligobombus'' Antropov 2014 (bee) |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=298444 |publisher=FossilWorks |access-date=17 December 2021 |archive-date=21 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421160200/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=298444 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Antropov |first1=A. V. |title=The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight |journal=Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |date=May 2014|volume=104 |issue=3–4 |pages=335–446 |doi=10.1017/S1755691014000103 |s2cid=85699800 |url=http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/80030/1/2014_Archaeagaon%5B1%5D.pdf |display-authors=etal}}</ref>
==References==
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==Sources==
*[[C. D. Michener]] (2000) ''The Bees of the World'', Johns Hopkins University Press.
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[[Category:Apinae]]
[[Category:Bee tribes]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille]]