Apis andreniformis was created in 1858.
Apis is the genus name for all honey bees.Specifically, the honey bee's scientific name includes at least two names. One is the genus name. The other is the species, of which there are seven: andreniformis, cerana, dorsata, florea, koschevikovni, mellifera, and nigrocincta.
Apiculture focuses on species of bees that are social and live and work together, because that is necessary for bee farming. In the Western world, the predominant species of honey bees used for apiculture is the apis mellifera.
Andreniformis, cerana, dorsata, florea, koschevnikovi, mellifera, are nigrocincta are the scientific names for the honey bee species.Specifically, an animal's scientific name consists of at least two parts. The first part is the genus, which is Apis in terms of the honey bee. The second is the species, which will be one of the seven names given above. The complete name therefore will be Apis andreniformis, A. cerana, A. dorsata, A. florea, A. koschevnikovi, A. mllifera, or A. nigrocincta depending upon the honey bee in question.
Apis nigrocincta was created in 1861.
Apis nearctica was created in 2009.
Apis florea was created in 1787.
Apis dorsata was created in 1793.
Apis koschevnikovi was created in 1906.
Apis mellifera lamarckii was created in 1906.
Apis mellifera macedonica was created in 1988.
Apis mellifera iberiensis was created in 1999.
A member of the Apis genus in the Apini tribe of the Apinae subfamily in the Apidae family of the Hymenoptera order in the Insecta class of the Arthropoda phylum in the Animalia kingdom is the classification of the honeybee. The arthropod classification puts the honeybee genus into one of three subgenera and one of eight species. Apis nearctica represents an extinct species whereas A. andreniformis and A. florea, A. dorsata, and A. cerana, A. koschevnikovi, A. mellifera and A. nigrocincta respectively fit into the subgenera Micrapis, Megapis and Apis.