Honey Bee
 Honey Bee



  • Apidae : Xylocopinae : Xylocopini
  • Synonyms, original combination, subspecies - Apis latipes Drury, 1773; Apis gigas De Geer, 1773; Mesotrichia latipes (Drury, 1773); Mesotrichia latipes basiloptera Cockerell, 1917; Xylocopa (Audinetia) latipes (Drury, 1773); Xylocopa (Mesotrichia) latipes (Drury, 1773); Xylocopa (Platynopoda) latipes basiloptera (Cockerell, 1917), valid subspecies
  • Original genus - Apis
  • Original specific epithet with original orthography - latipes
  • Broad-handed Carpenter



  • Nesting - Wood
  • Social - Subsocial
  • For X. latipes: Has been reported from southern India (e.g., Prashantha & Belavadi, 2017) based on misinterpretation of characters in the identification key of Moure and Hurd (1963), but we have verified X. latipes as occurring in Northeast India. Putative X. latipes from west or south of Sikkim and northern West Bengal examined by us proved to be X. tenuiscapa.
  • India - Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, West Bengal
  • Global - Malaysia: Johor; Negeri Sembilan; Perak; Sarawak; Selangor, Singapore: Bukit Batok; Botanic Garden; Healing Garden; Kent Ridge Park; Lazarus Island; National University of Singapore, sports field; National University Campus; Pulau Semakau; Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve; South East, Burma, [Burundi], Kiribati, Thailand: Bangkok Metropolis; Chiang Mai; Yala, Laos, Vietnam: Ha Giang, Cambodia:Kaoh Kong; Kampot, China: Yunnan, Antarctica, Guatemala, Palau, Indonesia: Bali, Java, USA Minor Outlying Islands
  • Author Name - Drury
  • Date of Birth - 1724
  • Date of Death - 1803
  • Origin Country - UK
  • Residence Country - UK
  • Drury, 1773. Illustrations of natural history, wherein are exhibited upwards of two hundred and twenty figures of exotic insects, according to their different genera; very few of which have hitherto been figured by any author, being engraved and coloured from nature, with the greatest accuracy, and under the author's own inspection, on fifty copper-plates. With a particular description of each insect, interspersed with remarks and reflections on the nature and properties of many of them, London, vii + 90 pp., 50 pls., UK, London.

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