The morphometric characters and sting pheromones of worker honeybees,
Apis mellifera Linnaeus, were analysed by multivariate methods to char
acterize their populations in southwestern Africa. There is a discrete
homogeneous population in north rn Sou th Africa and southern Namibia
recognized as the subspecies A. m. scutellata, a discrete population
in northern Namibia recognized as A. m. adansonii and a hybrid populat
ion between them.