title: Catalogue of Bombus sylvarum (Linnaeus, 1761) (Hymenoptera, Apidae) deposited in the State Museum of Natural History NASU, Lviv, Ukraine
abstract: Bombus sylvarum (Linnaeus, 1761) belongs to the subgenus Thoracobombus and is one of the 40 bumblebee species that occur in Ukraine. It is widely distributed in the West-Palaearctic region and may be quite common. In Europe B. sylvarum (L.) can be found from central Spain, Sicily, southern Italy, Greece and Turkey in the south (where it is restricted to the mountains), to the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia in the north. To the west it reaches Ireland and northern Portugal, and to the east it reach