Apis mellifera anatoliaca

Apis mellifera anatoliaca is known commonly as the Anatolian honey bee.
This bee-type is a subspecies of "Apis mellifera."
Habitat.
This bee is the aboriginal population of Turkey, populating the central parts of the country (Alpatov 1929), excluding the northeastern and southeastern, although including old Rumelia.
Taxonomy.
This bee type belongs to the branch of bee classified by Ruttner (1988) as "Oriental". A recent genetic study confirmed that the sub-species belongs to an Eastern Europe branch of the genotype of the honey bee. Mitochondrial Deoxyribonucleaic acid (mtDNA) analysis of Thracian bees showed some similarities to the Apis mellifera carnica, although this same similarity was absent from Anatolian bee samples (Smith and Brown (1990) & Meixner "et al." (1993). The cause of this is given as inter-breeding of native populations with nearby Austrian, Slovakian and Croatian bees.
External links.
 website "The Graphic Evaluation of Morphological Characters in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera L.) by Chernoff Faces" , 10 (3) 245–249