Measurements of honey bee (Apis mellifera) wings originally provided by Masaquiza et al. (2024)

The original data set is available at Zenodo:Masaquiza, D., & Arenal, A. (2024). Collection of images and raw coordinates of honey bee (Apis mellifera) wings from the central highlands of Ecuador. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13340594

It is related to publication in Insects: Masaquiza, D., Rodríguez, L.C., Zapata, J., Monar, J., Vaca, M., Porrini, L., Eguaras, M., Daniele, M., Romero, D., Arenal, A. (2024). Use of Wing Geometric Morphometric Analysis and mtDNA to Identify Africanization of Apis mellifera in the Central Highlands of Ecuador. Insects, 15, 628. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15080628

Prior to measurement, the honey bee wing images were converted from the TIF to PNG format and flipped horizontally. Individual wings were croped out and saved in separate files. Subsequently, the coordinates of 19 landmarks were determined using IdentiFly software. The position of the landmarks is consistent with that described by:Nawrocka et al. (2018): Nawrocka, A., Kandemir, İ., Fuchs, S., & Tofilski, A. (2018). Computer software for identification of honey bee subspecies and evolutionary lineages. Apidologie, 49(2), 172-184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-017-0538-y

The dataset consists of 726 fore wing images of honey bee (Apis mellifera) workers. The wing images represent 74 colonies. The wing images are compressed in EC-wing-images.zip. Raw coordinates of 19 landmarks marked on the wings are in file EC-raw-coordinates.csv. Additional data, including geographic coordinates, is saved in file EC-data.csv.