Honey Bee
Honey Bee
- Apidae : Xylocopinae : Xylocopini
- Synonyms, original combination, subspecies - Xylocopa ramulorum Rondani, 1874; Xylocopa convexa Smith, 1878; Xylocopa valga pyropyga Friese, 1914 ["1913"]
- Original genus - Xylocopa
- Original specific epithet with original orthography - valga
- Nesting - Wood
- Flight Season - 8
- Social - Subsocial
- For X. valga: Evidently restricted to far northern India. We regard reports of the related X. violacea from India to be based on misidentifications.
- India - Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir
- Global - France, Russia, Portugal, Spain, Australia, Switzerland, Italy, Moravia, Erzincan, Poland, [Czech Republic], Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Azerbaijan, Macedonia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, European Union, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Syria, Israel, Iraq, Morocco, Algeria, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, China: Guizhou; Nei Mongol; Xinjiang Uygur, Georgia, Germany
- Author Name - Gerstacker
- Date of Birth - 1828
- Date of Death - 1895
- Origin Country - GM
- Residence Country - GM
- Gerstäcker, 1872. Hymenopterologische Beitrage, Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 250-308 GM, Berlin.