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"So, a female diploid drone. A true clone"

I doubt that very much.  There are a variety of ways a diploid egg can be formed without being fertilized by a sperm.  Failure of one of the cell divisions during meiosis or fusion of an egg with a polar body are a couple of ways.  As long as that diploid egg has different sex alleles on the two chromosomes it would form a normal female.  For sure that female is not a clone of the mother as the egg goes thru cross overs before the cell divisions that form the egg.

Dick

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