Description
Bombus monticola is a rather small, compact bumblebee with a broad head and a short tongue. The queens have an average length of 16 millimetres (0.63 in), and a wingspan of 32 millimetres (1.3 in). The corresponding lengths of the other castes are 12 millimetres (0.47 in) (worker), and 14 millimetres (0.55 in) (male). In the nominate subspecies the thorax is black, with exception of a yellow collar (quite broad on the males) and on the edge of the scutellum. The first, and the frontal part of the second terga (abdominal segments) are black, as the final tergite, but the rest of the abdomen is yellow to red. See however the Taxonomy section for other subspecies.
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