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Apis (Cascapis) armbrusteri (Armbruster's honey bee)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Taxonomy
Apis armbrusteri was named by Zeuner (1931) [Neotype]. Its type specimen is SMNS 64675, an exoskeleton (complete bee), and it is a compression fossil. 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.

It was recombined as Apis (Apis) armbrusteri by Zeuner and Manning (1976); it was recombined as Apis (Cascapis) armbrusteri by Engel (1999), Engel et al. (2009), Takahashi and Takahashi (2025).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1931Apis armbrusteri Zeuner p. 292 figs. Pl 8, fig 1; text-fig 21
1938Hauffapis scheeri Armbruster p. 43 fig. 50,52,62,64,66,69,71,73
1938Hauffapis scheuthlei Armbruster p. 43 figs. 1-5,7,8,14,20,23,26,29,33,35,38-40,51,53,55,58,63-65,67,70-72,76,77,79
1938Hauffapis scharmanni Armbruster p. 44 fig. 78
1976Apis (Apis) armbrusteri Zeuner and Manning p. 244
1976Apis (Apis) armbrusteri scharmanni Zeuner and Manning p. 246
1976Apis (Apis) armbrusteri scheeri Zeuner and Manning p. 247
1976Apis (Apis) armbrusteri scheuthlei Zeuner and Manning p. 247
1999Apis (Cascapis) armbrusteri Engel p. 187
1999Apis armbrusteri Nel et al. p. 261
1999Apis armbrusteri scharmanni Nel et al. p. 261
1999Apis armbrusteri scheeri Nel et al. p. 261
1999Apis armbrusteri scheuthlei Nel et al. p. 261
2009Apis (Cascapis) armbrusteri Engel et al.
2011Apis armbrusteri Kotthoff et al. p. 21 figs. 2-5
2025Apis (Cascapis) armbrusteri Takahashi and Takahashi p. 292

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyApoidea
—AnthophilaLatreille 1804
familyApidae()
subfamilyApinae()
—Apiti
—CorbiculataShuckard 1866
tribeApini
genusApis
subgenusCascapis
speciesarmbrusteri()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Apis (Cascapis) armbrusteri Zeuner 1931 [Armbruster's honey bee]
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Invalid names: Hauffapis scharmanni Armbruster 1938 [synonym], Hauffapis scheeri Armbruster 1938 [synonym], Hauffapis scheuthlei Armbruster 1938 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the MN 5 to the top of the Sarmatian or 15.98000 to 11.63000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MN 515.98 - 13.82Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Apis armbrusteri (155657 155658) Apis armbrusteri, Hauffapis scheuthlei, Hauffapis scheeri (type locality: 109058) Hauffapis scheeri (155662) Hauffapis scheuthlei, Hauffapis scharmanni (155659) Hauffapis scheuthlei, Hauffapis scheeri (127613 127614 155660 155661)
Sarmatian12.8 - 11.63Germany (Wurttemberg) Apis armbrusteri (113752)