- Title
- The honeybees, Apis mellifera Linnaeus (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of woodland savanna of southeastern Africa
- Creator
- Radloff, Sarah E, Hepburn, H Randall, Villet, Martin H
- Date
- 1997
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6829
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012341
- Description
- The morphometric characters and sting pheromones of worker honeybees, Apis mellifera Linnaeus, were analysed by multivariate methods to identify discrete populations in the southeastern woodland savanna of Africa. A discrete population in Mozambique is classified as A. m. litorea Smith, a second in Zimbabwe as A. m. scutellata Lepeletier and a third group in southwestern Zambia as A.m. adansonii Latreille. A zone of introgression between the last two subspecies occurs in south-central Zambia and in the Zambezi Valley.
- Format
- 9 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Radloff, S.E. and Hepburn, H.R. and Villet, M.H. (1997) The honeybees, Apis mellifera Linnaeus (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of woodland savanna of southeastern Africa. African Entomology, 5 (1). pp. 18-27. ISSN 1021-3589
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Radloff, Sarah (Prof)
Hepburn, H Randall (Prof Emeritus)
RU Department of Statistics
Villet, Martin Herrer (Prof)
SDG 15. Life On Land
RU Department of Zoology and Entomology
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