Studying the variation of wing shape and size for iraqi honey bee worker apis mellifera (hymenoptera : apidae) collected from baghdad and diyala provinces by using geometric morphometric of wing

There are several different methods of classifying Insect. One of these methods that were used in this research is Geometric Morphometric of wing to study the variation shape and size of the right front wing of Iraqi honeybee worker collected from the provinces of Baghdad and Diyala in Iraq. Geometric Morphometric is an essential tool for honey bee races discrimination and characterization. Such vital tool has been applied widely in honey bee researches. The results showed that the mean centriod size of the right front wing is 764.34 and 768.92 for specimens of Baghdad and Diyala provinces respectively and did not show any significant differences in the mean of the centroid size for the right front between the colonies of the two provinces. When reclassification percent using discriminate analysis the results showed that the all specimens of Baghdad and Diyala provinces are completely identical. Furthermore results showed that no significant differences between specimens of Baghdad and Diyala provinces in the size and shape of the right front wing by using Analysis of variance.