Honey Bee
 Honey Bee



  • Apidae : Xylocopinae : Xylocopini
  • Synonyms, original combination, subspecies - Bombus coeruleus Fabricius, 1804; Bombus caeruleus Fabricius, 1804, emend.; Xylocopa coerulea (Fabricius, 1804); Xylocopa caerulea (Fabricius, 1804), emend. in prevailing use; Xylocopa semiarmenia Wiedemann, 1821; Cyaneoderes fairchildi Ashmead, 1899; Xylocopa (Koptorthosoma) caeruleiformis var. fusca Meade-Waldo, 1916, status uncertain; Xylocopa (Koptorthosoma) caerulea var. viridis Meade-Waldo, 1916, status uncertain; Xylocopa (Cyaneoderes) caerulea meadewaldoi Hurd, 1959, replacement name, status uncertain; Xylocopa (Cyaneoderes) caerulea meadewaldoi Hurd, 1959, status uncertain; Xylocopa (Cyaneoderes) caerulea (Fabricius, 1804)
  • Original genus - Bombus
  • Original specific epithet with original orthography - coeruleus
  • Common Blue-Carpenter



  • Nesting - Wood
  • Social - Subsocial
  • India - Sikkim?
  • Global - Malaysia: Malaya; Pulau Pinang; Pahang; Sabah; Sarawak, Singapore: Bukit Batok; Bukit Timah area; Dairy Farm; Nee Soon Swamp Forest; National University Campus, Burma, [Burundi], Kiribati, Thailand: Trang, Laos: Houaphan, Vietnam: Lam Dong, Cambodia: Krong Preah Sihanouk; Kaoh Kong, China: Guangdong; Guangxi Zhuang; Hainan; Yunnan, [Indonesia], Java, USA Minor Outlying Islands, Germany
  • Author Name - Fabricius
  • Date of Birth - 1745
  • Date of Death - 1808
  • Origin Country - DA
  • Residence Country - DA
  • Fabricius, 1804. Systema Piezatorum secundum ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus Brunsvigae: Reichard, xiv =15-440 [+ index pp. 1-30 dated 1805], GM, Braunschweig [Brunswick].

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