Bombus californicus Smith, 1854:400, ♂♀.California (B.M.). - Cresson, 1863Cresson, E.T. 1863. List of North American species of Bombus and Apathus. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 2:83-116. (distribution); Handlirsch, 1888Handlirsch, A. 1888. Die Hummelsammlung des k. k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 3:209-250. (distribution); Fox, 1893Fox, W.J. 1893. Report on some mexican Hymenoptera, principally from lower California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences ser.2 (4):1-25. (distribution); Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution); Cockerell, 1899Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. Catálogo de las Abejas de Mexico. Biblioteca Agricola de las Secretaria de Fomento, Mexico, 1-20. (distribution); Cockerell, 1902Cockerell, T.D.A. 1902. Hymenoptera of southern California - I. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Science 1 (6):70-71. (distribution); Cockerell, 1903Cockerell, T.D.A. 1903. A catalogue of the bees of California. Psyche 10:74-78. (distribution); Cockerell, 1904Cockerell, T.D.A. 1904. The bees of southern California. V. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Science 3 (6):86-90. (distribution); Franklin, 1913Franklin, H.J. 1913. The Bombidae of the New World. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 38 (3/4):177-486. (distribution); Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641. (distribution); Cockerell, 1936Cockerell, T.D.A. 1936. Bees from Northern California. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 12 (3):133-164. (distribution); Cockerell, 1937Cockerell, T.D.A. 1937. Bees from San Miguel Island, California. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 13 (4):148-156. (distribution); Cockerell, 1941Cockerell, T.D.A. 1941. Observations on plants and insects in northwestern Baja California, Mexico, with descriptions of new bees. Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 9 (31):337-352. (distribution); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209. (distribution); Mayer et al., 2000Mayer, D.F., E.R. Miliczky, B.F. Finnigan & C.A. Johansen 2000. The bee fauna (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of southeastern Washington. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia 97:25-32. (distribution); Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2010Ruíz-Cancino, E., D.R. Kasparyan, J.M. Coronado-Blanco, S.N. Myartseva, V.A. Trjapitzin, S.G. Hernández Aguilar & J. García Jiménez 2010. Himenópteros de la Reserva “El Cielo”, Tamaulipas, México. Dugesiana 17 (1):53-71. (distribution); Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022Nava-Bolaños, A. & L. Osorio-Olvera 2022. Estado del arte del conocimiento de biodiversidad de los polinizadores de México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 93:1-77. (distribution).
Bombus wosnesenskyi Radoszkowski, 1862:589 - Handlirsch, 1888Handlirsch, A. 1888. Die Hummelsammlung des k. k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 3:209-250.:243 ( listed as synonym of Bombus californicus Smith, 1854).
Bombus dubius Cresson, 1863:97, xw ?. Holotype xw, Western Kansas (Coll. E. Norton). - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of Florissant, Colorado. Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist. 22:419-455. (distribution); Franklin, 1913Franklin, H.J. 1913. The Bombidae of the New World. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 38 (3/4):177-486.:393 ( listed as synonym of Bombus californicus Smith, 1854); Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641.:509 ( listed as synonym of Bombus californicus Smith, 1854); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:2204 ( listed as synonym of Bombus californicus Smith, 1854).
Bombus flavifrons Lord, 1866:343 - Handlirsch, 1888Handlirsch, A. 1888. Die Hummelsammlung des k. k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 3:209-250.:243 ( listed as synonym of Bombus californicus Smith, 1854); Cockerell, 1903Cockerell, W.P. 1903. A trip to the Truchas Peaks, New Mexico. American Naturalist 37 (444):887-891. (distribution); Franklin, 1913Franklin, H.J. 1913. The Bombidae of the New World. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 38 (3/4):177-486.:325 ( listed as synonym of Bombus vosnesenskii Radoszkowski, 1862).
Bombus consanguineus Handlirsch, 1888:239, ♂♀. 2 ♀♀, 1 ♂, British-Columbia und von der Insel Vancouver. - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution); Franklin, 1913Franklin, H.J. 1913. The Bombidae of the New World. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 38 (3/4):177-486.:394 ( listed as synonym of Bombus californicus Smith, 1854); Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641.:509 ( listed as synonym of Bombus californicus Smith, 1854); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:2204 ( listed as synonym of Bombus californicus Smith, 1854).
Bombus neglectulus Ashmead, 1902:124 - Franklin, 1913Franklin, H.J. 1913. The Bombidae of the New World. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 38 (3/4):177-486.:394 ( listed as synonym of Bombus californicus Smith, 1854); Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641.:510 ( listed as synonym of Bombus californicus Smith, 1854); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:2204 ( listed as synonym of Bombus californicus Smith, 1854).