Cypriot bee

Cypriot bee
Systematics
without rank:	Bees (Apiformes)
Family :	Apidae
Subfamily :	Apinae
Genre :	Honey bees ( apis )
Type :	Western honey bee ( Apis mellifera )
Subspecies :	Cypriot bee
Scientific name
	Apis mellifera cypria
	Pollmann , 1879

The Cypriot bee ( Apis mellifera cypria Pollmann, 1879) is a breed of the western honey bee native to Cyprus .

distribution

The species is certain to be found in Cyprus . The exact delimitation of the distribution area from other subspecies is still insufficiently known. The Cypriot bee was counted among the bees of the Near East by Friedrich Ruttner , but according to genetic studies it is counted among the C-lineage .

behavior

The special defense strategy of the Cypriot bee against the oriental hornet is known . The bees prefer to attack their abdomen, where the hornet's vital breathing holes are.

Web links

Apis mellifera cypria . In: Atlas Hymenoptera , accessed March 4, 2017.

Individual evidence

↑ Irfan Kandemir, Marina Doris Meixner, Ayça Özkan Koca, Walter S. Sheppard: Genetic characterization of honey bee (Apis mellifera cypria) populations in northern Cyprus. Apidologie 37 (5), September 2006.
↑ Alexandros Papachristoforou, Agnès Rortais, Georgia Zafeiridou, George Theophilidis, Lionel Garnery, Andreas Thrasyvoulou, Gérard Arnold: Smothered to death: Hornets asphyxiated by honeybees. Current Biology, Volume 17, No. 18, October 2007.

[1] Irfan Kandemir, Marina Doris Meixner, Ayça Özkan Koca, Walter S. Sheppard: Genetic characterization of honey bee (Apis mellifera cypria) populations in northern Cyprus. Apidologie 37 (5), September 2006.

[2] Alexandros Papachristoforou, Agnès Rortais, Georgia Zafeiridou, George Theophilidis, Lionel Garnery, Andreas Thrasyvoulou, Gérard Arnold: Smothered to death: Hornets asphyxiated by honeybees. Current Biology, Volume 17, No. 18, October 2007.