Editing Honey bee (section)

====Eastern honey bee====
''[[Apis cerana]]'', the eastern honey bee proper, is the traditional honey bee of southern and eastern Asia. One of its subspecies, the Indian honey bee (''[[Apis cerana indica|A.&nbsp;c.&nbsp;indica]]''), was [[Domestication|domesticated]] and kept in hives in a fashion similar to ''A.&nbsp;mellifera'', though on a more limited, regional scale.

It has not been possible yet to resolve its relationship to the Bornean honey bee ''[[Apis cerana nuluensis|A.&nbsp;c. nuluensis]]'' and ''[[Apis nigrocincta]]'' from the Philippines to satisfaction; some researchers argue that these are indeed distinct species, but that ''[[Apis cerana|A.&nbsp;cerana]]'' as defined is still [[paraphyletic]], consisting of several separate species,<ref name="Arias-2005" /> though other researchers argue ''cerana'' is a single monophyletic species.<ref name="Radloff-2010">{{cite journal |last1=Radloff |first1=Sarah E. |last2=Hepburn |first2=Colleen |last3=Randall Hepburn |first3=H. |last4=Fuchs |first4=Stefan |last5=Hadisoesilo |first5=Soesilawati |last6=Tan |first6=Ken |last7=Engel |first7=Michael S. |last8=Kuznetsov |first8=Viktor |title=Population structure and classification of ''Apis cerana'' |journal=Apidologie |date=15 March 2010 |volume=41 |issue=6 |pages=589–601 |doi=10.1051/apido/2010008|s2cid=32751472 |url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00892035/file/hal-00892035.pdf }}</ref>