Published September 8, 2025 | Version v2

Fore wings of honey bees (Apis mellifera) from southwestern Asia

  • 1. ROR icon University of Agriculture in Krakow
  • 2. ROR icon Ankara University
  • 3. ROR icon Maltepe University
  • 4. Georgian Beekeepers Union
  • 5. ROR icon King Saud University

Description

The data set consists of 17015 images of the fore wing of honey bee Apis mellifera workers, representing 1535 samples and 8 countries in southwestern Asia: Azerbaijan (AZ), Cyprus (CY), Georgia (GE), Iran (IR), Iraq (IQ), Saudi Arabia (SA), Tajikistan (TJ), and Turkey (TR). For each country, there are three files beginning with the two-letter country code (shown in parentheses above): XX-wing-images.zip, XX-raw-coordinates.csv, and XX-data.csv, which contain wing images, raw landmark coordinates, and geographic coordinates, respectively. 
The wing shape was described with 19 landmarks, which is consistent with the configuration described by Nawrocka et al. (2018) https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-017-0538-y.

A statistical analysis of the dataset is available at:  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17077351

It is also available on GitHub:

https://github.com/DrawWing/Apis-mellifera-Asia

https://drawwing.github.io/Apis-mellifera-Asia/Apis-mellifera-Asia.html

Publication related to this dataset:

Machlowska J., Kandemir I, Koca A. Ö., Kakhniashvili V., Alattal Y., Alghamdi A. Tofilski A. (2025) Variation of honey bee wings in southwestern Asia. Scientific Data
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-06234-8

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Publication: 10.1038/s41597-025-06234-8 (DOI)