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Wings

honey bee wings

Fore wing (upper) and hind wing (lower) of honey bee worker. Venation terminology based on Michener (2000) The bees of the world,
, Baltimore, (2000)
[1]. (scale bar = 1 mm)

1m-cu - first medio-cubital cross-vein (first recurrent)
2m-cu - second medio-cubital cross-vein (second recurrent)
1r-m - first radio-medial cross-vein (second submarginal cross-vein)
2r-m - second radio-medial cross-vein (third submarginal cross-vein)
C - costa
Cu - cubitus
Cu1 - first branch of cubitus
Cu2 - second branch of cubitus
M - media (basal vein)
r - radial cross-vein
R - radius
R1 - first branch of radius
Rs - radial sector
V - vannal vein