Bombus kashmirensis
Bombus kashmirensis is a high-altitude bumblebee species native to the Himalaya and Hengduan mountain ranges.
Appearance
Females have wings that are nearly clear with dark brown veins. Their body hair is medium to long. The oculo-malar area is shorter than it is broad. The clypeus is slightly raised in the center, interrupting the transverse groove. The hair on the side of the thorax and the scutellum is either white or yellow. A key identifying feature is the hair on the fifth abdominal segment, which is orange with distinctive white tips.Males also have nearly clear wings with dark brown veins and medium to long hair. A notable characteristic is that the male eye is distinctly enlarged compared to the female eye. The male genitalia have a long gonostylus that is convexly rounded at the tip, and a strongly recurved penis-valve head that forms a broad hook. The hair on the side of the thorax is yellow or white, extending to the midleg bases. The third abdominal segment is usually predominantly black, and the sides of fifth and sixth segments have orange hair at the base with white tips.
In the wetter southern and eastern parts of its range, it has a white-banded pattern to mimic the abundant B. rufofasciatus and B. prshewalskyi. In the more arid north-western parts, it has a yellow-banded pattern to mimic the common local species B. keriensis.