MANJOLA KULIÇI1*, SONILA ÇOÇOLI2, ARBENITA HASANI3
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1 Department of Food and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food, Agricultural University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania * Corresponding author; E-mail: arbenita.hasani@uni-pr.edu Abstract In Dibra district, 27 morphological traits were measured on 180 worker bee. Measurements were made in samples collected from three different locations: Sohodoll, Maqellar and Melan. The aim of this study was the quantitative evaluation of morphological traits for bees in in Dibra district and by using this evaluation we studied the affinities that exist for these morphological traits between Dibra population and subspecies of Apis mellifera carnica. The measurement of morphological traits was done using a contemporary method (Scan Photo technique). The average values of the measured parameters were: Cubital index (CI) (2.73mm), Angle A4 (29.18), Angle B4 (112.38), Angle D7 (97.83), Angle E9 (23.46), Angle G18 (90.01), Angle K19 (76.76), Angle J10 (54.12), Angle J16 (91.08), Angle N23 (96.05), Angle L13 (10.46), Angle O26 (36.5), Proboscis length (PL) (6.398mm), Forewing length (FWL) (9.406mm), Forewing width (FWW) (3.167mm), Femur length (FL) (2.434mm), Tibia length (TL) (3.217mm), Basitarsus length (BL) (2.073mm), Basitarsus width (BW) (1.231mm), Number of hooks (HA) (20.394), Sternite 3 longitudinal (LS3) (2.8mm), Wax mirror of sternite 3 longitudinal (WL) (1.386mm), Wax mirror of sternite 3 transversal (WT) (2.396mm), Distance between wax mirrors of sternite 3(WD) (0.288mm), Tomentum (TOM A) (0.753mm), Length of hairs on tergite 5 (HLT5) (0.2740mm), Longitudinal diameter of tergitite 4 (T4) (2.14mm). The obtained data for 17 parameters have similar values with the same traits of A.m.carnica. We conclude that classification of Dibra population into the group of Apis mellifera carnica, could be a significant hypothesis. Keywords: honeybee, morphometric traits, Scan Photo technique (SPT), A.m.carnica |