Species Detail - Forest Cuckoo Bee (Bombus sylvestris) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Bees of Ireland".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Bombus sylvestris
Forest Cuckoo Bee
NHMSYS0000875594
RecommendedWell-formed
Bombus (Psithyrus) sylvestris (Lepeletier, 1832), Bombus albicans [Genus inferred] (Richards, 1928), Bombus atricans [Genus inferred] (Richards, 1928), Bombus atrithorax [Genus inferred] (Richards, 1928), Bombus bradleyi [Genus inferred] (Richards, 1928), Bombus carelicus [Genus inferred] (Richards, 1928), Bombus fuscocitrinus [Genus inferred] (Richards, 1928), Bombus quadricolor misident. [Genus inferred] , Bombus sylvestris (Lepeletier, 1833), Forest Cuckoo Bumblebee , Four-coloured Cuckoo Bee , Psithyrus sylvestris Lepeletier
N/A
bosyl
(Lepeletier, 1832)
Insect - hymenopteran
Species
473
177
77
01/01/1896
28/06/2024
25 March (recorded in 2017)
24 September (recorded in 2014)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Bees of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Forest Cuckoo Bee (Bombus sylvestris), accessed 13 June 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/5/Species/56094>