Honey Bee

Honey Bee

Honey Bee

Xylocopa (Xylocopa) violacea Linnaeus,1758

TAXONOMIC PLACEMENT

Apidae : Xylocopinae : Xylocopini

OTHER NAMES

Synonyms, original combination, subspecies - Apis violacea Linnaeus, 1758; Apis insubrica Muller, 1766, probable synonym; Xylocopa femorata Fabricius, 1804; Xylocopa (Xylocopa) violacea ab. heteropennis Vicidomini, 2003

ORIGINAL TAXONOMY

Original genus - Apis
Original specific epithet with original orthography - violacea

COMMON NAME

NO DATA

BEHAVIOUR

Nesting - Wood
Flight Season - 4
Social - Subsocial

COMMENT

DISTRIBUTION

Global - [Ireland], United Kingdom: Essex, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Portugal, Spain, Belize, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Algeria, Poland, [Czech Republic], Slovakia, Hungary, [Macedonia], Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Estonia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Morocco, Algeria: Antigua and Barbuda, Sint Maarten, Tunisia, Iran, Tajikistan

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DESCRIBER DETAILS

Author Name - Linnaeus
Date of Birth - 1707
Date of Death - 1778
Origin Country - SW
Residence Country - SW

REFERENCE

Linnaeus, 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum charateribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, Holmiae: Laurentius Salvius, ii + 824, SW, Stockholm.