Hi Mike/Allen

The external anatomy of honey bees is generally known as morphometry and
much of this is done by breeders in Europe and UK.

There is some elemental stuff at
http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman/morphometry.html

There is also much published by BIBBA, GBBG, (mainly Apis mellifera,
mellifera) there is info on the measurements of Carniolan bees on various
German sites.

Try these Search words

Wing Morphometry, Overhair length, Tomentum width, Tongue length, Discoidal
shift, Cubital Index.

There is wide variation between species so that these measurements can be
used to define the "breed". The statistics of the variances then tell us the
degree of purity or hybridisation.

This means that you will have to generate a "model" for each species.

Perhaps when you have collected your data, you will share it with the list.
I am particularly interested, at the moment, in the correlation between
thorax dimensions and the cell size that the bee was raised in.

Regards From:- Dave Cushman, G8MZY
Beekeeping and Bee Breeding, http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman
IBList Archives, http://website.lineone.net/~d.cushman