Apis (insect)

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DomainEukaryota • RegnumAnimalia • PhylumArthropoda • SubphylumHexapoda • ClassisInsecta • SubclassisPterygota • InfraclassisNeoptera • SuperordoHolometabola • OrdoHymenoptera • SubordoApocrita • SuperfamiliaApoidea • FamiliaApidae • SubfamiliaApinae • Genus: Apis (insect) Linnaeus, 1758
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Giant honey bees[edit]

Apis dorsata Fabricius, 1793[edit]

Common giant honey bee (or Asian giant honey bee)

Apis binghami Cockerell, 1906[edit]

Apis dorsata binghami (Cockerell, 1906)

Indonesian honey bee (or Indonesian giant honey bee)

Apis laboriosa Smith, 1871[edit]

Apis dorsata laboriosa (Smith, 1871)

Himalayan honey bee (or Giant mountain honey bee)

Dwarf honey bees[edit]

Apis andreniformis Smith, 1858[edit]

Black dwarf honey bee

Apis florea Fabricius, 1787[edit]

Red dwarf honey bee

Cavity-nesting honey bees[edit]

Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758[edit]

Western honey bee (or European honey bee)

Apis cerana Fabricius, 1793[edit]

Eastern honey bee (or Asiatic honey bee) or Eastern hive bee (or Asian hive bee)

Apis koschevnikovi Enderlein, 1906[edit]

red honey bee

Apis nuluensis Tingek, Koeniger, and Koeniger, 1996[edit]

Mountain honey bee

Apis nigrocincta Smith, 1861[edit]

Sulawesian honey bee

Honey bee in art[edit]