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Apis longitibia (long-legged honey bee)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae
Taxonomy
Apis longitibia was named by Zhang (1990). Its type specimen is Shandong Provincial Museum s82773, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shanwang, Linqu County, collection s (Shandong Provincial Museum), which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Shanwang Formation of China.
It was recombined as Apis (Synapis) longitibia by Engel (1999).
It was recombined as Apis (Synapis) longitibia by Engel (1999).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1990 | Apis longitibia Zhang p. 85 figs. Pl 1, figs 5,6; text-fig 3 |
| 1994 | Apis longitibia Zhang et al. p. 186 figs. Pl 33, fig 4; text-fig 170 |
| 1999 | Apis (Synapis) longitibia Engel p. 188 |
| 1999 | Apis longitibia Nel et al. p. 258 |
| 2009 | Apis longitibia Engel et al. p. 3 |
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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 longitibia Zhang 1990 [long-legged honey bee]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: Burdigalian or 20.45000 to 15.98000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Burdigalian | China (Shandong) | Apis longitibia (type locality: 128552) |