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Honey bee
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:This article refers collectively to all true honey bees; for the "common" domesticated honey bee, see Western honey bee.
Honey bees
Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent
European honey bee carrying nectar back to the hive, with pollen attached
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hymenoptera
Family:
Apidae
Subfamily:
Apinae
Tribe:
Apini
Latreille, 1802
Genus:
Apis
Linnaeus, 1758
Species
Subgenus Micrapis::*Apis andreniformis:*Apis florea* Subgenus Megapis::*Apis dorsata* Subgenus Apis::*Apis cerana:*Apis koschevnikovi:*Apis mellifera:*Apis nigrocincta
Honey bees (or honeybees) are a subset of bees in the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax. Honey bees are the only extant members of the tribe Apini, all in the genus Apis. Currently, only seven species of honey bee are recognized, with a total of 44 subspecies, though historically, from six to 11 species have been recognised. Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the roughly 20,000 known species of bees. Some other types of related bees produce and store honey, but only members of the genus Apis are true honey bees.The study of honey bees is known as apiology.
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