Apis (Apis) mellifera Linnaeus 1758
Authors/Creators
- 1. ) &) &) Department of Zoology, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, CZ- 12844 Praha 2, Czech Republic; e-mails: jakub. straka @ aculeataresearch. com; janbat @ centrum. cz
- 2. ) &) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Entomology, Rue Vautier 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium; e-mail: alain. pauly @ brutele. be
Description
(Figs 15, 16)
Apis fasciata Latreille, 1804: KIRBY (1903): 254.
Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758: KOHL (1906): 4; KOHL (1907): 172.
Material examined. Socotra: Dirhashas, 2 ♀♀, 28.ix.1998, W. Wranik lgt.; Hadibo, 1 ♀, 3.x.1998, W. Wranik lgt.; Kesa env., 220–300 m, 2 ♀♀, 28.–29.i.2010, 12°39′41.5″N 53°26′39.5″E, L. Purchart lgt.; Qualentiah env., slopes 5 km SE from Quaysoh, 1 ♀, 4.–5.vi.2010, 12°39′41.5″N 53°26′39.5″E, V. Hula & J. Niedobová lgt.; Sheq vill. env., 15 m, Croton socotranus + Jatropha unicostata shrubland, 1♀, 8.vi.2012, 12°39.7′N, 54°03.8′E, J. Bezděk, J. Hájek, V. Hula, P. Kment, I. Malenovský, J. Niedobová & Luboš Purchart lgt.; Deiqub cave, 115 m, Croton socotranus + Jatropha unicostata shrubland, 1 ♀, 12.vi.2012, 12°23.1′N, 54°00.9′E, J. Bezděk, J. Hájek, V. Hula, P. Kment, I. Malenovský, J. Niedobová & Luboš Purchart lgt.; Aloove area, Aloove vill. env., 221 m, Jatropha unicostata shrubland, with Boswellia elongata trees, 1 ♀, 19.–20.vi.2012, 12°31.2′N, 54°07.4′E, J. Bezděk, J. Hájek, V. Hula, P. Kment, I. Malenovský, J. Niedobová & L. Purchart lgt. (all NMPC).
Distribution. A cosmopolitan species, native in the entire Old World. In Socotra reported from Hadibu Plain, Adho Dimellus (KIRBY 1903), and Ras Shoab (KOHL 1906, 1907).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Apidae
- Genus
- Apis
- Species
- mellifera
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Apis (Apis) mellifera Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Straka, Batelka & Pauly, 2017
References
- KIRBY W. F. 1903: Insecta: Hymenoptera. Pp. 235 - 258. In: FORBES H. O. (ed.): The natural history of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri: Being the report upon the results of the conjoint expedition to these islands in 1898 - 9. Special Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums, xlvii + 598 pp.
- KOHL F. F. 1906: Zoologische Ergebnisse der Expedition der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften nach Sudarabien und Sokotra im Jahre 1898 - 1899. Hymenopteren. Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, 133 pp + XI pls. [Preprint of KOHL (1907)].
- KOHL F. F. 1907: Zoologische Ergebnisse der Expedition der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften nach Sudarabien und Sokotra im Jahre 1898 - 1899. Hymenopteren. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 71: 169 - 301 + pls I - XI.