that
there was Iranian race (Apis mellifera meda) in sampled areas.
Furthermore, sampled areas separated completely using
morphological characters. Rahimi and Asadi [12] studied
honeybees and obtained cubital index mean 2.4 from northern
areas of Iran. Thamasebi [17] obtained significant correlations
between forewing length and width, forewing and proboscis
length, hind leg and proboscis length. Attal [1] evaluated
Morphometric and genetic markers for discriminating of honey
bee subspecies of Saudi Arabia, morphometric analysis using
24 characteristics separated two subspecies of the Saudi
honeybees, Apis mellifera jemenitica and Apis mellifera
litorea. Also, he suggested that the mtDNA COI–COII region
and the morphometric variations can discriminate the honey
bee of Saudi Arabia and subspecies