Identification of Bombus species based on wing venation structure

Apidologie

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 472-480

  Kozmus, Peter ^a   Virant Doberlet, Meta ^b   Meglič, Vladimir ^a   Dovč, Peter ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Bumblebees; Identification; Slovenia; Wing venation

Indexed keywords

BEE; COHORT ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; IDENTIFICATION KEY; WING MORPHOLOGY;

SLOVENIA;

BOMBUS TERRESTRIS;

EID: 80054679861     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: 12979678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13592-011-0037-5     Document Type: Article

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