Apis (Synapis) henshawi

President and Fellows of Harvard College · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Henshaw's honey beePBDB
- Sits inside
- Apis (Synapis)PBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 4.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
9 occurrences of Apis (Synapis) henshawi on record, most of them in the Oligocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
9 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
3 formations
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The named rock units Apis (Synapis) henshawi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Apis (Synapis) henshawi and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Apis (Synapis) henshawi and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
589 taxa- Dilophus3 sites
- Tipula3 sites
- Anthidium mortuum2 sites
- Aphanus pulchellus2 sites
- Bibio2 sites
- Bibio germari2 sites
- Bibio janus2 sites
- Coleoptera2 sites
- Curculionidae2 sites
- Entimini2 sites
- Formica2 sites
- Hemiptera2 sites
- Hesperinus heeri2 sites
- Heterogaster pumilio2 sites
- Libellulidae2 sites
- Methocha2 sites
- Palaeotramea cellulosa2 sites
- Phryganea elegantula2 sites
- Plagiodera lyelliana2 sites
- Plecia bucklandi2 sites
- Plecia collossea2 sites
- Plecia foersteri2 sites
- Plecia hypogaea2 sites
- Plecia livida2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Apis (Synapis) henshawi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
7 references- A monograph on fossil bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)3
- A review of the European fossil species of the bee Apis1
- Two fossil bees from Oligocene of Izarra (Alava, Spain) (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)1
- Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France1
- Eine neue Bienenart aus Rott am Siebengebirge. Ein Beitrag zue Kenntnis der fossilen Honigbienen1
- Über einige fossile Insekten aus den Braunkohlenschichten (Aquitanien) von Rott (Siebengebirge)1
- A fossil honey-bee1
Each of the 9 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Apis (Synapis) henshawi
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Apis (Synapis) henshawi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itApis (Synapis) through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cockerell 1907)