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Solitary bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) are endangered by extinction. Furthermore they are highly suited for nature conservancy indication purposes. Nevertheless their appearence in development and ecological planning tasks is quite seldom due to their difficult classification. Our approach to classification of solitary bees is based on two ideas: (1) to use only the veining of the wings for discrimination, (2) to automate measurement, evaluation, and classification using image analysis and a hierarchical classification approach. First results show the functionality and efficiency of our approach even for the classification of species which are very difficult to separate by classical taxonomy.
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Steinhage, V., Kastenholz, B., Schröder, S., Drescher, W. (1997). A Hierarchical Approach to Classify Solitary Bees Based on Image Analysis. In: Paulus, E., Wahl, F.M. (eds) Mustererkennung 1997. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60893-3_45
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