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Geometric morphometrics of the wing as a tool for assigning genetic lineages and geographic origin to Melipona beecheii (Hymenoptera: Meliponini)

Journal

APIDOLOGIE
Volume 42, Issue 4, Pages 499-507

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SPRINGER FRANCE
DOI: 10.1007/s13592-011-0013-0

Keywords

Melipona beecheii; geometric morphometrics; wing morphometrics; conservation; genetic lineages

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  1. FAPESP [04/15801-0]
  2. CNPq [151947/2007-4]
  3. Sep-Conacyt [103341]

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The stingless bee Melipona beecheii presents great variability and is considered a complex of species. In order to better understand this species complex, we need to evaluate its diversity and develop methods that allow geographic traceability of the populations. Here we present a fast, efficient, and inexpensive means to accomplish this using geometric morphometrics of wings. We collected samples from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica and we were able to correctly assign 87.1% of the colonies to their sampling sites and 92.4% to their haplotype. We propose that geometric morphometrics of the wing could be used as a first step analysis leaving the more expensive molecular analysis only to doubtful cases.

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