Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Apis mellifera
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
Linnaeus, 1758
Common names
European Honey Bee, Western Honey Bee, Africanized honey bee, Domestic Honey Bee, Drone-bee, Honey Bee, Killer Bee, Honeybee
Names in other languages (93)Aamoo, Abeille domestique, Abeille domestique, Abeille européenne, Abeille mellifère, Mouche à miel, Abeille européenne, Abeille à miel, Abeja doméstica europea, Abeja melífera, Abeja melífera europea, Abelha-do-mel, Abelha-doméstica, Abelha-europeia, Abella de la Mel Europea, Abella de la mel, Abella do mel, Afrikaanse honingbij, Albină, Ape europea, Ava, Awawa baarate, Bal arısı, Bleta, Eiropas medus bite, Eirópäischer Imp, Europeisk honningbie, Europese honingbij, Europäische Honigbiene, Gwenyn Mêl Orllewinol, Heuningby, Honigbiene, Honingbij, Honningbi, Hunangsbý, Hunnegbei, Háziméh, Hönangim, Italiana, Lebah, Lebah madu, Medonosna pčela, Medonosna čebela, Medus bite, Meemesilane, Mehiläinen, Mielabelo, Nalo-meli, Naminė bitė, Nwowa, Nyawan, Nyuki-asali, Pi honi, Pszczoła miodna, Rietumu medus bite, Tawon undhuhan, Vakarinė medunešė bitė, Westelijke honingbij, Westliche Honigbiene, Zapadna medonosna pčela, abeicha, honningbie, honungsbi, seillean-dìomhain, seillean-lunndach, seillean-meala, seillean-mil, seilleanan-dìomhain, seilleanan-lunndach, seilleanan-meala, tambi, tarhamehiläinen, thuzhomid, včela medonosná, zahodna medonosna čebela, Μέλισσα, Бал аары, Бал арасы, Бджола медоносна, Европейска медоносна пчела, Занбӯри асал, Меданосная пчала, Медоносна пчела, Медоносная пчела, Մեղրատու մեղու, דבורת הדבש, زنبور عسل, نحل العسل الغربي, தேனீ, යුරෝපීය මී මැස්සා, ผึ้งพันธุ์, セイヨウミツバチ, 意大利蜂, 西方蜜蜂, 꿀벌, 양봉꿀벌
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Animalia
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Arthropoda
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Insecta
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Hymenoptera
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Apidae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Apis
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
mellifera
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Apis mellifera
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Not evaluated (NE)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-13 11:21.
Photo of Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758
Photo: Vince Hale · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758
Photo: Louis Aureglia · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758
Photo: Maria Luisa Bravo Alarcon · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758
Photo: Aidan Tsoumbakos · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758
Photo: Karen McCabe · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758
Photo: Michael Tidwell · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-13 11:21.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 2 of 20 visits the flowers of × has its flowers visited by × 18 more types with data for this species

Flower visit

visits the flowers of more than 1824 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Kenya Clover Trifolium repens Fabaceae visits the flowers of 1266 not compared
goldenrod Solidago Asteraceae visits the flowers of 1045 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
ogräsmaskrosor Taraxacum Asteraceae visits the flowers of 1007 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Bloodflower Asclepias syriaca Apocynaceae visits the flowers of 610 not compared
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has its flowers visited by more than 22 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae has its flowers visited by 169 not compared
Anthophila Choreutidae has its flowers visited by 8 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Rosemary Salvia rosmarinus has its flowers visited by 4 not compared
Apis Apidae has its flowers visited by 3 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
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Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.