Honey bee species and subspecies - Ethiopia
The following table represents native honey bee species and subspecies of Ethiopia - five** subspecies of A. mellifera, non-Apis species and the introduced A. florea are known.
Table: Apis species and non-Apis species used for bee products in Ethiopia are shown. + stands for species, occuring in the particular country, *+ describes introduced species. ** The literature is not consistent in defining A. m. bandasii as an own subspecies: part of the scientific literature claims that A. m. bandasii belongs to A. m. jemenitica. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
| Apis mellifera | Apis cerana | Apis dorsata | Other Apis species | Non-Apis species | |||||||||||||
| A. m. bandasii** | A. m. monticola | A. m. jemenitica | A. m. scutellata | A. m. woyi-gambella | A. mellifera sp. | A. c. himalayana | A. c. indica | A. c. nuluensis | A. d. binghami | A. d. dorsata | A. florea | A. andreniformis | A. koschevnikovi | A. nigrocincta | A. nuluensis | Trigona spp. | |
| Ethiopia | + [5] [4] [6] [7] | + [5] [4] [7] [8] | + [5] [4] [6] [7] [8] | + [5] [4] [6] [7] [8] | + [4] [7] | *+ [8] [9] | + [10] [11] | ||||||||||
References
- ↑ Al-Ghamdi, A. A., Nuru, A., Khanbash, M. S., & Smith, D. R. (2013). Geographical distribution and population variation of Apis mellifera jemenitica Ruttner. Journal of Apicultural Research, 52(3), 124-133.
- ↑ Amssalu, B., Nuru, A., Radloff, S. E., & Hepburn, H. R. (2004). Multivariate morphometric analysis of honeybees (Apis mellifera) in the Ethiopian region. Apidologie 35, 71–81.
- ↑ Engel, M. S. (1999). Taxonomy of Recent and Fossil Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Apis). J. Hym. Res., 8(2), 165-196.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Nuru, A., Amssalu, B., Hepburn, H. R., & Radloff, S. E. (2002). Swarming and migration in the honey bees (Apis mellifera) of Ethiopia. Journal of Apicultural Research, 41(1–2), 35–41.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Pirk, C. W. W., Strauss, U., Yusuf, A. A., Démares, F., & Human, H. (2015). Honeybee health in Africa—a review. Apidologie, 47(3), 276–300.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Radloff, S. E., & Hepburn, H. R. (1997). Multivariate analysis of honeybees, Apis mellifera Linnaeus (Hymenoptera: Apidae), of the Horn of Africa. African Entomology, 5, 57–64.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Tesfu, F. & Abebe, H. (2016). Current Trends of Honey Bee Genetic Resources in Ethiopia – A Review. International Journal of Current Research, 8(5), 31737-31739.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Gupta, R. K., Reybroeck, W., van Veen, J. W., & Gupta, A. (2014). Beekeeping for Poverty Alleviation and Livelihood Security: Vol. 1: Technological Aspects of Beekeeping. Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands.
- ↑ Bezabih, G., Adgaba, N., Hepburn, H. R., & Pirk, C. W. W. (2014). The Territorial Invasion of Apis florea in Africa. African Entomology, 22(4), 888–890.
- ↑ Fichtl, R., & Adi, A. (1994). Honeybee Flora of Ethiopia. Margraf Verlag, Germany.
- ↑ Pauly, A., & Hora, Z. A. (2013). Apini and Meliponini from Ethiopia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apidae: Apinae). Belg. J. Entomol, 16, 1–36.
