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Honey Bee
Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758
Also calledAamoo (oji) · Abeille domestique (fra) · Abeille domestique, Abeille européenne, Abeille mellifère, Mouche à miel (fra) · Abeille européenne (fra) · Abeille à miel (fra) · Abeja doméstica europea (spa) · Abeja melífera (spa) · Abeja melífera europea (spa) · Abelha-do-mel (por) · Abelha-doméstica (por) · Abelha-europeia (por) · Abella de la Mel Europea (cat) · Abella de la mel (cat) · Abella do mel (glg)
First described in: Linnæus, Carolus. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. Vol. Tomus I, Editio decima, reformata: i-ii, 1-824.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
Notes
Kim (1971), Lee and Kwon (1981), ME (1993), Kwon et al. (1996), Lee and Jung (2001), Lim and Lee (2012), Lim et al. (2013), HNIBR (2022), Won et al. (2023)
Checklist for the insect fauna of two East Sea Islands (Ulleungdo Is. and Dokdo Is.) in the Republic of Korea
eunis habitat
Regularly or recently cultivated agricultural, horticultural and domestic habitats (I level 1)
DAISIE - Inventory of alien invasive species in Europe
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Apis mellifera in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 1341976.