Species Apis (Apis) cerana Fabricius, 1793
Type data:
Lectotype ZMUC, China.Subsequent designation references:
Zimsen, E. 1964. The Type Material of I.C. Fabricius. Copenhagen : Munksgaard 656 pp. [420] (secondary source, states lectotype selected Moure 1958).
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from Torres Strait islands; reported as quarantine interception on freighter in Brisbane in September 1999 (Java haplotype, presumably boarded ship in Lae, D. Anderson pers. comm.); nest found and eradicated in Darwin in 1998.
Introduced from New Guinea.
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: mellivore, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Social insects, living in large colonies, with female reproductive and worker castes, nests of wax and resin, exposed, or in cavities such as hives or in trees.
General References
Anon. (Editorial Report) 1998. Apis cerana in Darwin — no Varroa. Australasian Beekeeper 100(1): 6 [Date published July 1998] [6]
Dunn, K.J. 1993. Exotic Asian bee detected in Torres Strait. Bee Briefs 9(2/3): 18-19 [18]
Engel, M.S. 1999. The taxonomy of recent and fossil honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Apis). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 8(2): 165-196 [Date published Oct. 1999] [179]
Knihinicki, D.K. & Halliday, R.B. 1995. The pollen mite, Melittiphis alvearius (Berlese) (Acarina: Laelapidae) newly recorded from beehives in Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 34(4): 323-325 [Date published November] [325] (Australian record)
Ruttner, F. 1987. Biogeography and Taxonomy of Honeybees. Berlin : Springer 284 pp. [Date published 31/12/1987] [120]
Smith, D.R. (ed.) 1991. Diversity in the Genus Apis: Westview Studies in Insect Biology. Boulder : Westview Press pp. 1-265. [29] (biology)
Weatherhead, T. 1999. Update on the Darwin incursion of the Asian honeybee Apis cerana as at 3rd December 1998. Australasian Beekeeper 100(7): 272-273 [272] (nest eradicated in Darwin)
History of changes
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