Scientific Study from the year 2016 in the subject Biology - Zoology, language English, abstract Stingless bees are limited to tropics and subtropics with diversity in species and share morphological and behaviour patterns. Stingless bees are major pollinators of flowering plants in the tropics and improve crop productivity. Trigona iridipennis Smith were kept in India for centuries for the high medicinal value of honey as well as propolis and bee wax. A wide range of variations, especially worker and drone body size and measurement, were reported. Morphometric and geometric analysis provide a valuable tool for the differentiating variations among various honey bees and stingless bees. Based on these back ground, our objectives of this study were 1 to characterize the morphometric aspects of workers in this reported new species of stingless bees and 2 to identify the various similarities and differences existing based on factor and principal component analysis with Trigona iridipennis