Clayton,
The Egyptian bee is an African bee identified as apis mellifera lamarckii.
Ruttner
places it in the same group of AFRICANIZED bees that we don't want in the US,
e. g.
a. m. scutellata, a. m. adansonii, and a. m. capensis (which we surely don't
want).

If you are trying to avoid propolis, the "true" Carniolan makes little or no
propolis.
Unfortunately, the Carniolan stock in Austria is related to the CAUCASIAN
race and hence propolizes heavily; and that is the stock used by Tom Rinderer
to create the YUGO ARS C1 hybrid - a bad mistake by my standards.

The New World Carniolan, developed by Sue Cobey, is almost propolis free.
However,
field breeding often changes that.

FORGET EGYPTIAN bees!

I hope I have helped.

George Imirie