- Title
- Population structure of Apis mellifera scutellata (Hymenoptera: Apidae) filling the Uganda gap
- Creator
- Radloff, Sarah E, Hepburn, H Randall
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2001
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/452017
- Identifier
- vital:75095
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC32956
- Description
- Apis mellifera scutellata Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Apidae) extends from South Africa to Ethiopia but includes local populations of varying morphology. The honeybees of Uganda previously represented an important biogeographical gap in defining the population structure of A. m. scutellata, but have now been resolved by morphometric analyses of worker honeybees analysed with multivariate techniques. Honeybees of lower altitudes (less than 2000 m) formed one distinct morphocluster typical of A. m. scutellata throughout the continent, while those at higher altitudes (less than 2000 m) formed a separate distinct cluster of large, dark bees. The latter occur as an archipelago of mountain ecotypes of A. m. scutellata..
- Format
- 5 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Entomology, Radloff, S.E. and Hepburn, H.R., 2001. Population structure of Apis mellifera scutellata (Hymenoptera: Apidae): filling the Uganda gap. African entomology, 9(2), pp.131-135, African Entomology volume 9 number 2 131 135 2001 2254-8854
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- Rights
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