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Apis (Synapis) miocenica (Chinese Miocene honey bee)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Taxonomy
Apis miocenica was named by Hong (1984). Its type specimen is Beijing Natural History Museum 79040, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shanwang, Linqu County, collection 79/80 (Beijing Museum), which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Shanwang Formation of China.

It was recombined as Apis (Synapis) miocenica by Engel (1999), Takahashi and Takahashi (2025).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1984Apis miocenica Hong p. 10 figs. Pl 2, fig 3
1985Apis miocenica Hong and Wang p. 11 fig. 7
1989Apis miocenica Zhang p. 322 figs. Pl 83, figs 1-3; text-figs 324-326
1989Apis fota Zhang p. 323 figs. Pl 83, figs 4, 6; text-fig 327-329
1989Apis shandongica Zhang p. 325 figs. Pl 83, fig 5; text-fig 330, 331
1998Apis miocenica Engel p. 273
1999Apis (Synapis) miocenica Engel p. 188
1999Apis fota Nel et al. p. 258
1999Apis miocenica Nel et al. p. 258
1999Apis shandongica Nel et al. p. 258
2009Apis miocenica Engel et al. p. 3
2025Apis (Synapis) miocenica 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
subgenusSynapis
speciesmiocenica()

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 (Synapis) miocenica Hong 1984 [Chinese Miocene honey bee]
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Invalid names: Apis fota Zhang 1989 [synonym], Apis shandongica Zhang 1989 [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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Burdigalian or 20.45000 to 15.98000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian20.45 - 15.98China (Shandong) Apis miocenica (type locality: 128550) Apis miocenica, Apis fota, Apis shandongica (128551)