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Arthropods, 2020, 9(4): 129-138
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Wing characters for morphological study on the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) populations among six provinces of Iran

Shahram Dadgostar1, Jamasb Nozari1, Gholamhossein Tahmasbi2
1Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
2Animal Science Research Institute of Iran, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organization, Karaj, Iran

Received 12 May 2020;Accepted 20 June 2020;Published 1 December 2020
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Abstract
The honey bee is the most useful insect in the environment for its pollination and productions. The Apis genus has some species and subspecies all over the world and Apis mellifera is the most famous species among them. Many characters such as morphological and genetical variability were used to discriminate A. mellifera races that one of the useful morphological characters is wing perimeter which we use in the current study. Honey bee samples were collected from six provinces of Iran and transfer into 96 % alcohol. About 60 worker bees were used to the slide preparation from each population. Slides were prepared from the right forewing of samples, and digital images of forewings were photographed by using a CCD video camera (Sony, Dinolite 2). ImageJ software was used to measure the perimeter of forewing as a new character, cubital index, length and width of forewing, A4- D7- G18 angles and then data were analyzed by R package, PAST and SPSS software. The results has shown that there are significant differences between the forewings in various populations and the highest and the lowest forewing perimeters were obtained from Isfahan and West Azerbaijan respectively. Also, the correlation between wing perimeter and other characters of the forewing was evaluated. Wing perimeter is an important character that can affect on foraging behavior and flight ability, ultimately this feature will influence on the colony fitness. Also, this character can be used as a new method for discriminating honey bee populations based on morphological measurements.

Keywords Apis mellifera;morphometric;wing perimeter;Dino Lite;honey bee.



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