Asian Honey Bee (Apis cerana)

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Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name: Apis cerana Fabricius, 1793
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.: Apis cerana
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.: Fabricius, 1793
Common names: Asian Honey Bee, Asiatic Honey Bee, Asiatic honey bee or Eastern honey bee, Eastern Honey Bee, Honey Bee
Names in other languages (28)
Abeille asiatique, Abeja melífera asiatica, Abella de la Mel Asiàtica, Ape asiatica, Ape orientale, Asya Bal Arısı, Aziatische honingbij, Laywan, Lebah Lalat, Lebah Madu Timur, Rytinė medunešė bitė, intianmehiläinen, pszczoła wschodnia, včela východní, Östliche Honigbiene, östasiatiskt honungsbi, Китайская восковая пчела, نحل العسل الشرقي, মৌমাছি, ਸ਼ਹਿਦ ਦੀ ਮੱਖੀ, ආසියාතික මී මැස්සා, ผึ้งโพรง, トウヨウミツバチ, 东方蜜蜂, 中國蜂, 中華蜜蜂, 東方蜜蜂, 재래꿀벌
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.: cerana
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 cerana
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 2026-10-09 07:00.

Photo of Apis cerana Fabricius, 1793 — Photo: Davis Damaledo · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 07:00.

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: 1 of 14 visits the flowers of × 13 more types with data for this species

Flower visit

visits the flowers of 307 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
Shepherd's Needles Bidens alba Asteraceae	visits the flowers of	94	not compared
94 sources · 97 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/156143878 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · April 17, 2023 · Human observation; no place published · April 17, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/266757627 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · March 21, 2025 · Human observation; no place published · March 21, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/271685558 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · March 10, 2025 · Human observation; no place published · March 10, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202377655 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 14, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202388649 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 13, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202389102 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 13, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/304616674 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 8, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/305446001 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 9, 2025 · Human observation And 86 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Bidens Asteraceae	visits the flowers of	15	not compared	Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
15 sources · 15 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104101529 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Jan. 1, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104313440 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Jan. 1, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/329645211 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Nov. 22, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/334748755 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Dec. 13, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/133312990 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 13, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/141611801 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 16, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148494983 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Jan. 29, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/252591467 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 24, 2024 · Human observation And 7 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Nightblooming Cactus Selenicereus undatus	visits the flowers of	10	not compared
10 sources · 10 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/143989237 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Sept. 12, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/143993952 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 15, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/143993953 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 15, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/143994007 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 22, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144069547 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 8, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144213683 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Sept. 26, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/381813588 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 15, 2026 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/388403819 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 16, 2026 · Human observation And 2 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Grass Poaceae Poaceae	visits the flowers of	9	not compared	Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at family level.
9 sources · 9 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/116371065 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 9, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/25529585 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Feb. 15, 2017 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/149005335 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Dec. 20, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/55689118 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Nov. 22, 2018 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172183940 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 9, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/180570987 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 28, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/181568041 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 28, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/185872050 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Sept. 30, 2023 · Human observation And 1 more source, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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Interaction data from Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), GloBI 0.11. Each row keeps the citation its own study published.

Interactions are published at species level: they are not resolved by variety or race.

Each block is headed by the source's own term, read from this species' end — not by a category of ours. Two similar terms are not merged.

«Documented here» means the interaction was observed in this territory. It is not evidence that the species is here, and it does not enter the niche model.

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.