Identification of Africanized honey bees through wing morphometrics: Two fast and efficient procedures

Apidologie

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 488-494

  Francoy, Tiago Mauricio ^a   Wittmann, Dieter ^b   Drauschke, Martin ^b   Müller, Stefan ^b   Steinhage, Volker ^b   Bezerra Laure, Marcela A F ^a   Jong, David De ^a   Gonçalves, Lionel Segui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ABIS; Africanized honey bee; Apis mellifera; Automatic identification; Geometric morphometrics analysis; Morphometrics

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; HONEYBEE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MORPHOMETRY; WING MORPHOLOGY;

AFRICA; BRAZIL; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

APIS MELLIFERA; APIS MELLIFERA SCUTELLATA; APOIDEA;

EID: 55049106466     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: 12979678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2008028     Document Type: Article

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