The Indian black honey bee, Apis karinjodian, is a cavity-nesting honey bee that was described only recently from India. As far as is currently known it is endemic to the Western Ghats, where it ranges across nearly the whole of the central and southern parts of the mountain chain, including the ghat regions of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Goa. The paper that announced the species also argued that Apis indica and Apis cerana are separate species, which brings the number of cavity-nesting honey bees recognised on the Indian subcontinent to three; before that, A. indica had been treated as a subspecies of A. cerana. Researchers hope that its ability to produce higher quality honey will benefit beekeeping in India, and the IUCN Red List treats the species as near threatened.
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includes the ghat regions in the states of Kerala, Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Goa
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includes the ghat regions in the states of Kerala, Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Goa
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This species considered as near-threatened species as per the IUCN Red List.
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the Indian black honey bee, is a species of genus Apis
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is a species of genus Apis which was reported recently from India
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