Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Alternative combination: Apis armbrusteri

Synonyms: Apis armbrusteri scharmanni Armbruster 1938, Apis armbrusteri scheeri Armbruster 1938, Apis armbrusteri scheuthlei Armbruster 1938, Hauffapis scharmanni Armbruster 1938, Hauffapis scheeri Armbruster 1938, Hauffapis scheuthlei Armbruster 1938

Full reference: F. E. Zeuner. 1931. Die Insektenfauna des Böttinger Marmors. Fortschritte der Geologie und Palaeontologie 9:247-406

Belongs to Apis (Cascapis) according to Y. Takahashi and J. Takahashi 2025

See also Armbruster 1938, Engel 1999, Engel et al. 2009, Kotthoff et al. 2011, Nel et al. 1999, Zeuner 1931 and Zeuner and Manning 1976

Sister taxon: Apis (Cascapis) nearctica

Type specimens:

• Apis (Cascapis) armbrusteri: SMNS 64675, an exoskeleton (complete bee). Its type locality is Randeck Maar (SMNS coll), which is in a MN 5 crater lake lime mudstone in the Randeck Maar Formation of Germany.
• Hauffapis scharmanni: Holzmaden Coll. 78, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Randeck Maar (Hauff collection), which is in a MN 5 crater lake lime mudstone in the Randeck Maar Formation of Germany.
• Hauffapis scheeri: Herein coll., an exoskeleton.
• Hauffapis scheuthlei: Armbruster coll. 36, an exoskeleton.

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.