Some Morphological Variation of Dwarf Honeybee, Apis florea Fab. in Northern and Southern Iraq

Q4 Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Arab Journal of Plant Protection Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.22268/ajpp-41.3.332338

Mosalim Ashour Abdelwahed Alebty, Ibrahim Majid Faraj, Karazan Omar Kader

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Alebty, M.A., I.M. Farag and K.O. Ali. 2023. Some Morphological Variation of Dwarf Honeybee, Apis florea Fab. in Northern and Southern Iraq. Arab Journal of Plant Protection, 41(3): 332-338. https://doi.org/10.22268/AJPP-41.3.332338 The dwarf honeybee, Apis florea Fab. is a successful ecologically adaptive and important factor in pollinating crops. It has recently spread widely in Iraq. To investigate the variability of this bee species, samples of worker bees from different regions of Iraq (North, Kurdistan Region and Southern, Basra province) were collected during the period from March to December 2021. Ten body morphological traits of worker bees and nine wing traits were selected for this study. The statistical analysis of the results obtained showed a clear discrepancy in the measurement of the studied characters, as sizes were less in the southern bees compared to northern bees for head length, antenna length, femur length, tibia length, 3 rd sternite length, 4 th tergite length, front wing width and length, angle A4, angle B4, angle D7, angle G18 and angle K19. This is the first record of dwarf honeybee in Kurdistan province in Iraq. Keywords: Apis florea, honeybees, morphological characters, adaptation, hot areas, cold areas, Iraq

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矮蜜蜂的一些形态变异。在伊拉克北部和南部

albty, m.a.， I.M. Farag和K.O. Ali。2023。矮蜜蜂的一些形态变异。在伊拉克北部和南部。植物保护学报，41(3):332-338。https://doi.org/10.22268/AJPP-41.3.332338矮蜜蜂，Apis florea Fab。是一个成功的生态适应性和授粉作物的重要因素。它最近在伊拉克广泛传播。为了调查这种蜜蜂物种的变异性，研究人员在2021年3月至12月期间收集了伊拉克不同地区(北部库尔德斯坦地区和南部巴士拉省)的工蜂样本。选取工蜂的10个身体形态性状和9个翅膀性状进行研究。统计分析结果表明，南方蜜蜂的头部长度、触角长度、股骨长度、胫骨长度、第三胸骨长度、第四胸骨长度、前翼宽度和长度、角A4、角B4、角D7、角G18和角K19的尺寸均小于北方蜜蜂。这是在伊拉克库尔德斯坦省首次发现矮蜜蜂。关键词:Apis，蜜蜂，形态特征，适应性，热区，寒区，伊拉克

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Arab Journal of Plant Protection Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Agronomy and Crop Science

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期刊介绍： The Arab Journal of Plant Protection is an open access journal included in CABI, AGRIS and Google Scholar data bases and indexed by Scopus. The journal’s aim is the promotion of plant health for crops grown in the Arab and Near East region and for safe food production and transfer of new knowledge on plant pests and their sustainable management. The journal deals with all scientific