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The white-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lucorum) is a species of bumblebee that is widespread and common throughout Europe. However, the name has been widely used for many of a complex of nearly identical-looking or cryptic species of bumblebees. A recent review of all of these species worldwide has helped to clarify its distribution in Europe and northern Asia, almost to the Pacific. In the north it reaches the Barent's Sea. In southern Europe, however, it is an...

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