Taxonavigation

Apis mellifera

Familia: Apidae
Subfamilia: Apinae
Tribus: Apini
Genus: Apis
Species: A. andreniformis – A. cerana – A. dorsata – A. florea – A. koschevnikovi – A. mellifera – A. nigrocincta – A. terrestris – †A. armbrusteri – †A. dalica – †A. henshawi – †A. lithohermaea – †A. longtibia – †A. miocenica – †A. nearctica – †A. petrefacta – †A. vetusta

Name

Apis Linnaeus, 1758

References

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page.  [first availability, see p. 578
• ICZN 1996: Opinion 1828. Apis terrestris Linnaeus, 1758, A. muscorum Linnaeus, 1758 and A. lucorum Linnaeus, 1761 (currently Bombus terrestris, B. muscorum and B. lucorum) and Bombus humilis Illiger, 1806 (Insecta, Hymenoptera): specific names conserved, and neotypes designated for B. terrestris and B. muscorum. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 53(1): 64–65. BHL
• Engel, M.S. 2006: A giant honey bee from the Middle Miocene of Japan (Hymenoptera: Apidae). American Museum novitates, (3504) DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)504[0001:AGHBFT]2.0.CO;2 PDF
• Engel, M.S.; Hinojosa-Díaz, I.A.; Rasnitsyn, A.P. 2009: A honey bee from the Miocene of Nevada and the biogeography of Apis (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Apini). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4), 60(3): 23–38. PDF

• Engel, M.S., Wang, B., Alqarni, A.S., Jia, L-B., Su, T., Zhou, Z-K. & Wappler, T. 2018. A primitive honey bee from the Middle Miocene deposits of southeastern Yunnan, China (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 775: 117–129. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.775.24909 Reference page. 

• Kotthoff, U.; Wappler, T.; Engel, M.S. 2011: Miocene honey bees from the Randeck Maar of southwestern Germany (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 96: 11–37. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.96.752 Reference page. 
• Lo, N.; Gloag, R.S.; Anderson, D.L.; Oldroyd, B.P. 2010: A molecular phylogeny of the genus Apis suggests that the giant honey bee of the Philippines, A. breviligula Maa, and the plains honey bee of southern India, A. indica Fabricius, are valid species. Systematic entomology, 35(2): 226–233. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00504.x

Vernacular names

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