Calyptapis Explained

Calyptapis is an extinct bombini genus related to bumblebees with one described species Calyptapis florissantensis. It is known only from the Late Eocene Chadronian age shales of the Florissant Formation in Colorado. The genus and species were described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1906.[1] [2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bombus florissantensis Cockerell 1906 (bumble bee) . FossilWorks . 17 December 2021 . 5 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220105120517/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=179693 . dead .
  2. Cockerell, T. D. A . 1906 . Fossil Hymenoptera from Florissant, Colorado . Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology . 50 . 2 . 33–58.

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