<p>A study concerning the classification of bees using as criterion a discrimination learning task. Three groups of bees, representing three different species, were conditioned by a process of discrimination. The results indicate that there is a definite degree of correspondence between our classification of the three species attained through the use of a behavioral criterion (learning to discriminate between simultaneous SD and Sdelta), and the classification proposed. Kerr and Esch through a combination of several biological criteria. Such equivalence if confirmed in other species, could mean that bees at higher level of biological evolution learn a discriminatory response in a more economic fashion.</p>