No - Adansoni and scutellata are one and the same. Was at one time exclusively named Adansoni but people started to use the term Scutellata with reference to it being identified by its distinctive dark band or scutella. The 'Africanised' honeybee refers to the hybrid originated in Brazil when they brought in Adansonii to gee up their rather unproductive 'lazy' local european honeybee population which accidentally escaped quarantine when some well meaning individual removed the queen excluders put over the entrances to stop the drones and queens leaving the hive. Hollywood then got hold of the story and triggered the genre of 'killer bees' and they've been getting their knickers wet over it ever since.
I've handled the bees in Lesotho and Tanzania, seldom wearing gloves and often observing hive entrances pretty closely without PPE and found them no different to our bees
but you have to consider they can quickly change their mood (female of the species and all that
) and get over defensive, even slightly agressive.
I did speak to a few beekeepers out in Lesotho and they all mentioned the slightly more agressive highland bee. And with Lesotho you also have to remember that it has no history of honey farming, even traditional bark/grass hives so the bees they have are all indigenous bees. The only history of honey gathering they have there is honey hunting, especially among the herd boys, it was pretty constant actually, almost a sport actually which meant that, unlike other African countries, wild honey bee colinies aren't quite as prolific there. The constant persecution may also explain their increased defensiveness
