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La especie, identificada bas\u00e1ndose en caracter\u00edsticas morfol\u00f3gicas, ha sido nombrada <em>Apis aibai <\/em>en honor al paleont\u00f3logo japon\u00e9s Hiroaki Aiba. Parece ser un antepasado de <em>Apis nigrocincta<\/em>, una especie que actualmente vive en Filipinas y est\u00e1 estrechamente relacionada con <em>Apis cerana japonica<\/em>, la \u00fanica especie nativa de abeja mel\u00edfera que vive en Jap\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ir al art\u00edculo cient\u00edfico <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/zookeys.pensoft.net\/article\/162389\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">aqu\u00ed<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fossil of a new honey bee species fills a gap of several million years in the evolutionary history of honey bees. 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Discovered in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, this fossil belongs to a species that lived during the Late Pliocene\u2013Early Pleistocene, a period for which no bee fossils had previously been found. The species, identified based on morphological characteristics, has been named Apis aibai in honor of Japanese paleontologist Hiroaki Aiba. 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