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	Melanobombus male genitalia
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18 species

Part of the bumblebee phylogenetic tree including available Melanobombus species from an analysis of DNA sequence data for five genes (Cameron et al. 2007 [pdf] ). Values above branches are Bayesian posterior probabilities, values below branches are parsimony bootstrap values.


caucasicus eximius festivus formosellus friseanus incertus	keriensis ladakhensis lapidarius miniatus pyrosoma richardsiellus	rufipes rufofasciatus semenovianus sichelii simillimus tanguticus


rufipes (Indonesia)	eximius (China)	eximius (latissimus) (Taiwan)	festivus (China)
simillimus (India)	miniatus (India)	rufofasciatus (India) [damaged]	friseanus (China)
richardsiellus (Myanmar)	pyrosoma (China)	caucasicus (Turkey)	?caucasicus (eriophorus) (Russia)
lapidarius (England)	ladakhensis (India)	keriensis (India)	keriensis (separandus) (Pakistan)
semenovianus (India) [damaged]	incertus (Turkey)	sichelii (Austria)	sichelii (erzurumensis) (Turkey)

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