The joint Codex Alimentarius Commission (www.codexalimentarius.net) of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO) defines honey as "the natural sweet substance produced by honey bees from the nectar of plants, which the bees collect, transform by combining with specific substances of their own, deposit, dehydrate, store and leave in the honeycomb to ripen and mature."

There seems to be no sound reason to exclude non Apis species from this definition. 

Stingless bees can be found in most tropical or subtropical regions of the world, such as Australia, Africa, Southeast Asia, and tropical America. The majority of native eusocial bees of Central and South America are stingless bees, although only a few of them produce honey on a scale such that they are farmed by humans. They are also quite diverse in Africa, including Madagascar, and are farmed there also; meliponine honey is prized as a medicine in many African communities as well as in South America. Stingless bees that produce honey include: Austroplebeia spp., Trigona spp., Melipona spp., Tetragonisca spp. 

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