Unsure why, but one important component of historic naming is lost.
Did you all notice - how the historic names are location-attached?
Caucasian Grays...
Caucasian Yellows...
Italians...
Within Russia, there actually populations also called by the locality name (e.g. Baskirian, etc).
The so-called Russian bee in the US (commercial name, really) - in Russia-proper it is called - Far Eastern bee (NOT Russian, which only makes sense in Russia).
This makes sense because the specific location defines the bee that lives there.
So - I would call mine - Southern Wisconsin Bee (not black, not yellow, not whatever - I can not control the coloring anyway).
But I can control where my beehives are sitting around - that is called - locality (and whatever environment comes with it).
If only those annual package trucks would stop coming.
These year they were selling lots of "Russians" here...
What mess and impossibility to actually create the "Southern Wisconsin Bee" because of it.