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Apis mellifera (western honey bee)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae
Taxonomy
Apis mellifera was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
It was corrected as Apis mellifica by Linnaeus (1761), Scopoli (1763), Linnaeus (1767), Fabricius (1775), Müller (1776) and Harris (1780); it was recombined as Apis (Apis) mellifera by Zeuner and Manning (1976).
It was corrected as Apis mellifica by Linnaeus (1761), Scopoli (1763), Linnaeus (1767), Fabricius (1775), Müller (1776) and Harris (1780); it was recombined as Apis (Apis) mellifera by Zeuner and Manning (1976).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Apis mellifera Linnaeus p. 576 |
| 1761 | Apis mellifica Linnaeus p. 421 |
| 1763 | Apis mellifica Scopoli p. 303 fig. 811 |
| 1767 | Apis mellifica Linnaeus p. 955 |
| 1775 | Apis mellifica Fabricius p. 383 |
| 1776 | Apis mellifica Müller p. 164 |
| 1780 | Apis mellifica Harris p. 132 figs. Pl 39, figs 9,10 |
| 1909 | Apis mellifera Cockerell p. 317 |
| 1976 | Apis (Apis) mellifera Zeuner and Manning p. 249 figs. Pl 4, fig 6 |
| 1987 | Apis mellifera Spahr p. 88 |
| 2009 | Apis mellifera 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 mellifera Linnaeus 1758 [western honey bee]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||