Carniolan honey bee

Carniolan honey bee
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Genus: Apis
Species:
A. mellifera
Subspecies:
A. m. carnica
Trinomial name
Apis mellifera carnica
Pollman, 1879
Synonyms
  • Apis mellifica hymettea Pollmann 1879
  • Apis mellifera carniolica Koschevnikov 1900 (Emend.)
  • Apis mellifica banatica Grozdanic 1926
  • Apis mellifera banata Skorikov 1929 (Emend.)
  • Apis mellifera carpatica Barac 1977

The Carniolan honey bee (Apis mellifera carnica, Pollmann) is a subspecies of the western honey bee. The Carniolan honey bee is native to Slovenia, southern Austria, and parts of Albania,[1] Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and North-East Italy.[2]

  1. ^ Dedej, S.; Biasiolo, A.; Piva, R. (1996). "Morphometric and alloenzymatic characterisation in the Albanian honeybee population Apis mellifera L" (PDF). Apidologie. 27 (3): 121–131.
  2. ^ "Analysis of Honey Bees from an Area of Racial Hybridization in Northeastern Italy".