Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Arthropoda (phylum)
8. Hexapoda (subphylum)
9. Insecta (class)
10. Hymenoptera (order)
11. Apocrita (suborder)

Narrower term/s

• Apidae (family)[+]
  • Apis (genus) [+]
    • Apis mellifera (species)

Anotations

Scope note:

Members of a superfamily containing more than 20,000 living species of flying insects in eight families, including primitive wasplike bees, solitary bees, and bees that live in colonies, some of which are valued by humans as pollinators and producers of honey and wax.