Individuality of wing patterning in giant honey bees (Apis laboriosa)

Apidologie

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 311-318

  Kastberger, Gerald ^a   Radloff, Sarah ^b   Kranner, Gerhard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c Eudaptics Software GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Apis laboriosa; Giant honeybee; Individuality; SOM re classification; Wing pattern

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; HONEYBEE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; WING;

APIDAE; APINAE; APIS; APIS DORSATA; APIS LABORIOSA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0038322102     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2003020     Document Type: Article

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