Exterior differences between species of honeybee Apis millefera L

Using nonparametric discriminant analysis the contribution of standard set of exterior features of working individuals honeybee, belonging to the Аpis mellifera carnica Pollmann, 1879 and Apis mellifera caucasica Gorbatchev, 1916, in the inter-family inbreeding and interbreeding differences of the Apis mellifera L. was evaluated. Based on the complex of analyzed attributes of exterior the equations of classification function, which can identify the breed, were constructed for each breed. It was found, that for the both breeds the feature "wing length" significantly discriminates, at least half of the families, that has implications for the analysis of group (family) variability of exterior features.