Apis mellifera sinisxinyuan

Subspecies of honey bee

Apis mellifera sinisxinyuan
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Apidae
Genus:	Apis
Species:	A. mellifera
Subspecies:	A. m. sinisxinyuan
Trinomial name
*Apis mellifera sinisxinyuan* Chen, Liu, Pan, Chen, Wang, Guo, Liu, Lu, Tian, Li & Shi, 2016^[1]

Apis mellifera sinisxinyuan (the Xinyuan honey bee) was first discovered in 2016 in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, this subspecies has a range that is the farthest east known for the species of Apis mellifera (honey bees).^[2]

References

^ "Apis mellifera sinisxinyuan". ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
^ Chao Chen, Zhiguang Liu, Qi Pan, Xiao Chen, Huihua Wang, Haikun Guo, Shidong Liu, Hongfeng Lu, Shilin Tian, Ruiqiang Li, Wei Shi. (May 2016). "Genomic Analyses Reveal Demographic History and Temperate Adaptation of the Newly Discovered Honey Bee Subspecies Apis mellifera sinisxinyuan". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33 (5): 1337–1348. doi:10.1093/molbev/msw017. PMC 4839221. PMID 26823447.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)