Apis mellifera jemenitica incorporates a few perceived subspecies that vary in their natural properties and farming qualities. Mitochondrial COI gene sequence (mtCOI) has not been used before for bee identification in the southwestern region of Saudi Arabia. The aim of this work was to study the morphometry and analyzing the mtCOI of all collected bees. The nucleotide sequence of the mtCOI gene was analyzed. Similarity searches and distances between each obtained DNA and sequences available in GenBank were made. Morphometric analysis revealed close similarities among the studied bees, but these similarities are different from those previously indicated in earlier studies of the same region. Molecular studies revealed that the collected bees are similar to each other and some other sequences found in GenBank, but these bees are a new hybrid or subspecies that are different from those previously reported in the same region, indicating the emergence of a new hybrid.

蜜蜂包含了一些感知到的亚种，这些亚种的自然特性和耕作质量各不相同。以前在沙特阿拉伯的西南地区尚未使用线粒体COI基因序列（mtCOI）进行蜜蜂鉴定。这项工作的目的是研究形态计量学并分析所有收集到的蜜蜂的mtCOI。分析了mtCOI基因的核苷酸序列。进行相似性搜索以及每个获得的DNA与GenBank中可用序列之间的距离。形态分析表明所研究的蜜蜂之间存在相似之处，但这些相似之处与先前在同一地区的早期研究中指出的相似。分子研究表明，收集到的蜜蜂彼此相似，并且在GenBank中发现了其他一些序列，