Rifat Hussain Raina - Desert Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India- Jodhpur, ۳۴۲۰۰۶, India
Keshav Kumar - Desert Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India- Jodhpur, ۳۴۲۰۰۶, India
Aejaz Hussain Parrey - Department of Zoology, School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, BGSB University, Rajouri, J;K, ۱۸۵۲۳۴, India
Indu Sharma - Desert Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India- Jodhpur, ۳۴۲۰۰۶, India
Virendra Prasad Uniyal - Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun, Uttarakhand ۲۴۸۰۰۱, India
Malkiat Singh Saini - Department of Zoology and Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University Patiala, Punjab, India

This paper reports a new addition to the national bumblebee fauna of the Indian Himalayas. The newly recorded species viz., Bombus cryptarum (Fabricius, ۱۷۷۵) (Hymenoptera, Apidae) is fully described from the Gurez Valley (Jammu and Kashmir) and Panamik (Ladakh) in the Western Himalayan range. Males of the B. cryptarum have thoracic dorsum and T۲ lemon yellow without black hairs. Gonostylus with the anterior apical process with long hairs and penis valve greatly broadened and flared outwards. With the addition of a new record, the Indian Himalayan region is now represented by ۵۷ species of bumblebees. The species diagnosis, current distributional range, and host plants of this species are also provided.

Conservation, fauna, highlands, Himalayas, pollination