Honey Bee
 Honey Bee



  • Apidae : Xylocopinae : Xylocopini
  • Synonyms, original combination, subspecies - Xylocopa hemichlora Cockerell, 1929; Xylocopa iridipennis var. semipurpurea Cockerell, 1929; Xylocopa auripennis var. phenachroa Cockerell, 1929; Xylocopa iridipennis Lepeletier, 1841; Xylocopa pictipennis Smith, 1874; Xylocopa (Biluna) auripennis iridipennis Lepeletier, 1841, valid subspecies; Xylocopa (Biluna) auripennis caspari van der Vecht, 1953, valid subspecies
  • Original genus - Xylocopa
  • Original specific epithet with original orthography - auripennis
  • Golden-winged Bamboo-Carpenter



  • Nesting - Bamboo
  • Social - Subsocial
  • For X. auripennis: Has been reported as X. nasalis in the recent literature from India (e.g., Prashantha & Belavadi, 2017, based on material from southern India). However, the expected species of this subgenus in India is X. auripennis, and it is not clear whether true X. nasalis, described from China and widely reported from Indochina and Thailand, genuinely occurs in India. If so, it should be limited to the North-east. Sources of confusion in the subgenus have included difficulties in interpreting the identification key in Moure and Hurd (1963), divergent interpretations of dates and rank of nominal taxa in the older literature (e.g., Maa, 1938), incomplete documentation of biogeographic limits in available publications, and notable variation in size and wing color within and between populations.
  • India - Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, West Bengal
  • Global - Sri Lanka: Polonnaruwa, Nepal, Malaysia: Selangor, Singapore: National University Campus; Pulau Ubin, Burma, Thailand:Bangkok Metropolis; Yala, [Indonesia], Java, Lebanon
  • Author Name - Lepeletier
  • Date of Birth - 1770
  • Date of Death - 1845
  • Origin Country - FR
  • Residence Country - FR
  • Lepeletier, 1841. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hymenopteres, Librairie encyclopedique de Roret, 1-680, FR, Paris.

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