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A esp\u00e9cie, identificada com base em caracter\u00edsticas morfol\u00f3gicas, foi denominada <em>Apis aibai <\/em>em honra do paleont\u00f3logo japon\u00eas Hiroaki Aiba. Parece ser um ancestral de <em>Apis nigrocincta<\/em>, uma esp\u00e9cie que vive atualmente nas Filipinas e est\u00e1 intimamente relacionada com <em>Apis cerana japonica<\/em>, a \u00fanica esp\u00e9cie nativa de abelha do g\u00e9nero Apis que vive no Jap\u00e3o.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ir para o artigo cient\u00edfico <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/zookeys.pensoft.net\/article\/162389\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">aqui<\/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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