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Table II

Standard canonical discriminant function coefficients and constant coefficients of the morphological characteristics of two Turkish geographic native honeybee subspecies.

Morphological Canonical discriminant function
traits coefficients

Number Function 1 Function 2
1 Length of hairs (LH) –7.538 3.964
2 Width tomentum band a (WTa) –6.501 6.323
3 Width tomentum band b (WTb) –2.530 –1.647
4 Tomentum index (TI) 0.139 –1.561
5 Length of proboscis (LPr) 0.499 0.703
6 Length of femur (LF) –2.439 3.760
7 Length of tibia (LT) –2.928 –3.125
8 Length of metatarsus (LM) –3.194 –0.993
9 Length of hind leg (LHL) 0.933 3.634
10 Width of metatarsus (WM) –14.626 9.743
11 Metatarsal index (MI) 0.179 –0.084
12 Width of tergite 3 (WT3) 9.494 29.728
13 Width of tergite 4 (WT4) 10.882 28.248
14 Body size (T3+T4) (BS) –9.081 –35.309
15 Width of sternite 3 (WS3) –6.383 3.501
16 Length of wax mirror (LWM) 9.548 –1.781
17 Width of wax mirror (WWM) 5.032 1.341
18 Dist. between mirrors (DWM) 4.543 –9.993
19 Length of sternum 6 (LS6) –46.731 32.694
20 Width of sternum 6 (WS6) 35.574 –23.837
21 Sternum 6 Index (S6I) 1.636 –0.702
22 Length of forewing (LFW) 2.484 2.106
23 Width of forewing (WFW) –0.588 –2.971
24 Length of cubital a (LCa) –2.765 42.204
25 Length of cubital b (LCb) –4.703 18.693
26 Cubital index (CI) –0.636 –0.058
27 Colour of tergite 2 (CT2) –0.317 0.344
28 Colour of tergite 3 (CT3) –1.674 –0.729
29 Colour of tergite 4 (CT4) –2.165 0.059
30 Colour of scutellum (CSc) –0.723 –0.116
31 Angle 1 (A4) 0.432 –0.251
32 Angle 2 (B4) 0.173 –0.114
33 Angle 3 (D7) –0.093 0.006
34 Angle 4 (E9) –0.080 0.081
35 Angle 5 (J10) –0.197 0.195
36 Angle 6 (J16) –0.147 0.188
37 Angle 7 (N23) 0.090 –0.126
38 Angle 8 (L13) –0.326 0.346
39 Angle 9 (K19) –0.002 0.035
40 Angle 10 (O26) 0.035 0.110
41 Angle 11 (G12) –0.144 0.181
Constant coefficients –101.27 –33.85