Clinal morphometric variation in wild honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in South Africa

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-25

  Steele, G R ^a   Villet, M H ^a   Radloff, S E ^a   Hepburn, H R ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Apiculture; Applied systematics; Climate; Honey bees

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008976566     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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