Spotting

Description:

Length: ~0.8cm Season : Winter season Time : 5:30pm 15Dec2021 Frequency : Very Rare Life stage : Adult

Habitat:

Spotted inside the car parking very close to open abandoned area with lot of plants.

Notes:

Some species of Honey bee. (Dead specimen)

1 Species ID Suggestions

Ornithoptera80 2 years ago

Red Dwarf-Honey Bee

Apis florea Red Dwarf-Honey Bee (Apis florea) · iNaturalist Canada

1 Comment

m.prasad.369 2 years ago

Hi Ornithoptera80, Thank you for the ID suggestion! :)

Just few clarifications :

1. It's abdomen is not as bright reddish as shown in the reference link. The spotting has brownish red abdomen. I have observed this spotting few times. It has been exactly same color as in pics.

2. There are only 2 white bands on the abdomen (1st band is between brownish red area and black area. 2nd bank is inside the black area).

Are these differences because of variations (specific to Indian sub-continent) shown in Apis florea?

Spotted by
m.prasad.369

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Spotted on Dec 15, 2021
Submitted on Dec 15, 2021