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Indian black honey bee
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Indian black honey bee

Apis karinjodian

Apis karinjodian, the Indian black honey bee, is a species of genus Apis which was reported recently from India. The currently known distribution of A. karinjodian covers nearly the entire Central to Southern Western Ghats, where it is endemic, and includes the ghat regions in the states of Kerala, Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Goa. The original paper discovering and describing this species also proposes that A. indica and A. cerana are distinct species, thus raising the total...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1556623.