Apis koschevnikovi [SEP] parent taxon
Apis koschevnikovi
Apis koschevnikovi, Koschevnikov's honey bee, is a species of honey bee which inhabits Malaysian and Indonesian Borneo, where it lives sympatrically with other honey bee species such as "Apis cerana" (specifically "A. c. nuluensis").
The species was first described by Hugo Berthold von Buttel-Reepen, who dedicated it to Grigory Aleksandrovich Kozhevnikov (1866–1933), a pioneer of honey bee morphology. This was an invalid designation, however, and the name was first formally made available by Günther Enderlein that
resources.
Even though "Apis koschevnikovi" and "Apis dorsata" share mostly the same rain forest habitat and overlap spatially in using trees at all heights in the canopy, they are still able to coexist. They differ in size and tongue length, which helps separate resource use. Only half of the resources that "Apis koschevnikovi" uses are shared with "Apis dorsata".
However, in contrast to normal feeding behavior, "Apis koschevnikovi" and "Apis dorsata" fight at artificial feeding stations. They