Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Alternative combinations: Apis (Priorapis) vetusta, Apis vetustus

Full reference: M. S. Engel. 1998. Fossil honey bees and evolution in the genus Apis (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Apidologie 29:265-281

Belongs to Apis according to M. S. Engel et al. 2009

See also Engel 1998 and Engel 1999

Sister taxa: Apis (Apis), Apis (Cascapis), Apis (Priorapis), Apis (Synapis), Apis armbrusteri, Apis lithohermaea, Apis longitibia, Apis mellifera, Apis miocenica, Apis petrefacta, Hauffapis

Type specimen: MCZ 7514, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Rott (MCZ coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large lignite in the Rott Formation of Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Rott (MCZ coll)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.