“…The honey bees in the Republic of Benin were classified as A. mellifera adansonii based on morphometric measurements by Villières (1987). Further studies were limited to measurements of key body parts in isolated villages located in the centre and the north of the country and provided no further characterization (Amakpe, 2010;Hounpke et al, 2007;Paraïso et al, 2011, Paraïso et al, 2017. Morphological characterization is still considered as a very important method in the classification of honey bees with more than forty useful parameters (Adl et al, 2007;Fresnaye, 1981;Meixner et al, 2011).…”