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Cape honey bee

subspecies of insect
Taxon taxon Q1502847
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Cape honey bee

Summary

Cape honey bee is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (91 views/month, #1,589 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cape honey bee's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Cape honey bee is classified at the rank of subspecies[4].
  • Cape honey bee is classified within Apis mellifera[5].
  • Cape honey bee's scientific name is Apis mellifera capensis[6].
  • Cape honey bee's Commons category is recorded as Apis mellifera capensis[7].

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Classification

Cape honey bee's scientific name is Apis mellifera capensis[6]. It is classified at the rank of subspecies[4]. It is classified within Apis mellifera[5].

Identifiers

Cape honey bee's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 429428[8]. Cape honey bee's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 293692[9]. Cape honey bee's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 10937770[10]. Cape honey bee's ITIS TSN is recorded as 1131151[11].

Why It Matters

Cape honey bee ranks in the top 0.81% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (91 views/month, #1,589 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Apis mellifera
    Instance of → taxon
    Aliases → —
    Taxon rank → subspecies
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007568156105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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