The Variability of Wing Nervature Angles of Honey Bee from the North Kosovo Area

ABSTRACT

Honey bee's wings are on dorsal side and are attached to the second segment of the thorax. The system of chitin nerves runs trough them. The wing nervature is variable, but the layout of cells on the wings is not random, however, and is used for the determination of bees.

Honey bee is one of the most studied insects with a total of 42 morphometric parameters used for the purpose of racial determination and taxonomy.

The aim of this paper is to determine the morphometric parameters of the angles between the nerves of the front wing, which are: A4, B4, D7, E9, G18, J10, J16, K19, L13, N23 and O26, as well as to analyze the morphometric parameters on the rear wing of the honey bee—angles W1, W2 and W3).

The bee samples were taken from the area of north part of Kosovo and Metohija on the sites Lešak, Sočanica and Kosovska Mitrovica. The samples were comprised of 10 bees each, and are indigenous material.

Also, the variation coefficient and maximum and minimum value of the researched parameters were determined in this study.

Keywords:

• honey bee
• wing nervature angles
• variability
• northern Kosovo