There are two methods of morphometric and geometric for discriminating of honeybee races and
populations. Currently, geometric morphometric method uses as inexpensive, fast and precise method for
identifying of honeybee races and populations. In standard morphometric, seven distances and three
angles were measured from the forewings, proboscis, abdomen and hind legs of different honeybee
populations. In geometric morphometric, 18 landmarks were located at wing vein junctions. Five areas
were selected as representatives of main geographical points of the North, West, East, Center and South
from Iran. Procrustes analysis, principal component analysis, and Canonical variate analysis (CVA) was
conducted for discriminating of collected samples. Average length of forewing, proboscis and cubital
index were 9.01 mm, 6.55 mm and 2.4 in Iran. Results showed that geometric and standard
morphometrics discriminated area populations 77.5 and 70.7% respectively therefore the geometric
morphometric method was more precise and easier than the standard morphometric because we used only
forewing for discrimination of populations.