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[...]... 1 The Asian Species of Apis 19 Lavrekhin FA (1935) Contribution to the study of variation of the honeybee 2 Comparative biometric characteristics of the sexual appendages of the drones belonging to different forms of the genus Apis Zool Zh 14:655–663 [in Russian] Li S, Meng YP, Chang JT, Li JH, He SY, Kuang BY (1986) A comparative study of esterase isozymes in 6 species of Apis and 9 genera of Apoidea... Apis cerana populations of southern Asia In: Proceedings of the 14th international congress, IUSSI, Sapporo, p 209 Radloff SE, Hepburn HR, Otis GW (2001) Flight machinery of honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Apis) In: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on tropical bees, Chiang Mai, pp 163–168 Radloff SE, Hepburn HR, Koeniger G (2003a) Comparison of flight design of Asian honeybee drones Apidologie... the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature The systematics of honeybees has also undergone a paradigm shift as earlier ´ evolutionary taxonomic methods and systems of organisation have become passe, having been replaced by the contemporary emphasis on populations, the statistical 1 The Asian Species of Apis 3 distribution of morphological characters and the reconstruction of evolutionary... all of the mesoscale morphoclusters of Radloff et al (2010) are compared with the new macroscale results, the only discrepancies are that, in the former, (1) the bees of the Philippines were included with those of Indonesia and Borneo; and (2) the bees of Japan are now placed in the Northern Asia morphocluster of the latter However, there are differences between the mapped morphocluster results of Ruttner... Thailand and Vietnam These results were completely consistent with those of Radloff et al (2005b) for the bees of southern Yunnan Morphometric analyses of A cerana from oceanic Asia yielded two distinct morphoclusters, bringing the then total number of morphoclusters to seven (Radloff et al 2005c) On completion of the above series of regional mesoscale studies, the newly formed comprehensive dataset for... studies 16 S.E Radloff et al This latter finding necessitates a re-evaluation of the hypothesised origin of extant European, African and West Asian A mellifera In addition, the growing evidence of honeybee diversity in the geological past is not only expanding the total number of species but also forcing a reconsideration of global Apis biogeography By example, the recent discovery of fossil honeybees in... Interspecific Interactions Among Asian Honeybees 445 Ming-Xian Yang, Ken Tan, Sarah E Radloff, and H.R Hepburn 20 Bibliography of the Asian Species of Honeybees 473 H.R Hepburn and Colleen Hepburn Index 659 Contributors D.P Abrol Division of Entomology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences... Ono M (1992) The Asian honeybees (Apis spp.) Honeybee Sci 13:19–22 Otis GW (1991) A review of the diversity of species within Apis In: Smith DR (ed) Diversity in the genus Apis Westview, Boulder, pp 29–49 Otis GW (1996) Distributions of recently recognized species of honeybees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Apis) in Asia J Kans Entomol Soc 69:311–333 Otis GW, Hadisoesilo S (1990) Honeybee survey of South Sulawesi... Radloff SE, Hepburn HR (1998) The matter of sampling distance and confidence levels in the subspecific classification of honeybees, Apis mellifera L Apidologie 29:491–501 Radloff SE, Hepburn HR (2000) Population structure and morphometric variance in the Apis mellifera scutellata group of honeybees in Africa Genet Mol Biol 23:305–316 Radloff SE, Hepburn HR (2002) Multivariate morphometric analysis of the... Africa; Department of Zoology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Yaan, People’s Republic of China, damoguyan2006@yahoo.com.cn Chapter 1 The Asian Species of Apis Sarah E Radloff, H.R Hepburn, and Michael S Engel 1.1 Introduction The number of species of honeybees recognised over the last two and a half centuries has varied quite considerably, following the original descriptions of Apis mellifera (1758) . w0 h0" alt="" Honeybees of Asia . H.R. Hepburn l S.E. Radloff Editors Honeybees of Asia Editors Professor Dr. H.R. Hepburn Department of Zoology and Entomology Rhodes. 50% of all literature on Asian honeybees follows publication of Ruttner’s classic work. Another major impetus for increased research on honeybees in Asia