MORPHOMETRIC STUDIES ON THE INDIAN HONEYBEE, APIS CERANA INDICA F. EFFECT OF SEASONAL VARIATIONS
| Autor: | L.R. Verma, V.K. Mattu |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Revues Inra, Import |
| Rok vydání: | 1984 |
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0106 biological sciences
Veterinary medicine animal structures Scape [SDV.BID]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity Hymenoptera 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences [SDV.SA.SPA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Animal production studies Apis cerana indica ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS Antenna (biology) [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology environment Larva Wing biology Apidae fungi Anatomy biology.organism_classification [SDV.BA.ZI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology Worker bee [SDV.EE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology environment 010602 entomology [SDV.SA.SPA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Animal production studies Insect Science [SDV.BA.ZI] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology [SDV.BID] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity |
| Zdroj: | Apidologie Apidologie, Springer Verlag, 1984, 15 (1), pp.63-74 |
| ISSN: | 0044-8435 1297-9678 |
| DOI: | 10.1051/apido:19840106 |
| Popis: | SUMMARY Morphometric studies on the worker bee samples collected during various seasons revealed that many of the morphological characters such as length of flagellum, antenna, fore wing, radial cell, wing veins VL and IL vannal lobe, femur, tibia, third tergite, wax mirror, third and sixth sternites and breadth of hind wing showed significantly higher values for the samples collected during summer and autumn seasons as compared to those collected in other seasons. However, other morphological characters viz., tongue length, length of scape, hind wing, metatarsus, breadth of fore wing, radial cell etc. did not show any significant differences among bee samples collected during different seasons. Summer and autumn are the periods of maximum honeyflow in this region and it seems that strength of the colony and presence of surplus food for larvae affect the biometry of A.c. indica. |
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