author(s)
Saleem Jaffar, Sakhawat Ali, Hina Imtiaz, Muhammad Asghar Hassan, Muhammad Yasin, Syed Arif Hussain Rizvi, Dilawar Ali Dilbar and Arshad Ali

abstract
This study was conducted during 2017-18 to explore the genus Bombus Latreille, 1802 from the Himalayan region of Pakistan. As a result, we found 771 specimens of bumblebees, among them nine species viz. Bombus asiaticus Morawitz, 1875, B. lucorum subsp. jacobsoni Skorikov, 1912, B. rufofasciatus Smith, 1852, B. tunicatus Smith, 1852, B. kashmirensis Friese, 1909, B. semenovianus Skorikov, 1914, B. melanurus Lepeleitier, 1836, B. lepidus Skorikov, 1912 and B. ferganicus Radoszkowski, 1893. Of these, B. semenovianus Skorikov, 1914, B. ferganicus Radoszkowski, 1893, B. kashmirensis Friese, 1909 and B. lepidus Skorikov, 1912 are new records for Gilgit-Baltistan. Most of the bumblebees were collected in altitudinal ranges of 6000ft-9000ft. Diagrams of each bumblebee cast have been listed with distribution.