Africanized honey bee and Apis mellifera

Africanized honey bee noun - A strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas.

Apis mellifera and Africanized honey bee are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Apis mellifera" instead a noun phrase "Africanized honey bee".

Apis mellifera noun - Social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces.

Africanized honey bee and Apis mellifera are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Africanized honey bee" with "Apis mellifera", this phrases are similar.