Editing Africanized bee (section)

===Morphological tests===
Although the native East African lowland honey bees (''[[Apis mellifera scutellata]]'') are smaller and build smaller comb cells than the European honey bees, their hybrids are not smaller. Africanized honey bees have slightly shorter wings, which can only be recognized reliably by performing a statistical analysis on micro-measurements of a substantial sample.

[[File:Honey Bee takes Nectar.JPG|thumb|Compare ''[[Apis mellifera scutellata|A. m. scutellata]]'']]
One of the problems with this test is that there are other subspecies, such as ''[[Apis mellifera iberiensis|A. m. iberiensis]]'', which also have shortened wings. This trait is hypothesized to derive from ancient hybrid [[haplotype]]s thought to have links to evolutionary lineages from Africa. Some belong to ''[[Apis mellifera intermissa|A. m. intermissa]]'', but others have an indeterminate origin; the Egyptian honeybee (''[[Apis mellifera lamarckii]]''), present in small numbers in the southeastern U.S., has the same morphology.