Literature on bee mites

André H. M. 1978(1979). A generic revision of the family Tydeidae (Acari: Actinedida). 1. Introduction, paradigms and general classification. Annales de la Societe Royale Zoologique de Belgique 108(3-4): 189-208.

André H. M. 1980a. A generic revision of the family Tydeidae (Acari: Actinedida) IV. Generic descriptions, keys and conclusions. Bulletin & Annales de la Société Royale Belge d'Entomologie. 116(4-6): 103-130.

André H. M. 1980b. A generic revision of the family Tydeidae (Acari: Actinedida) IV. Generic descriptions, keys and conclusions (continued). Bulletin & Annales de la Société Royale Belge d'Entomologie. 116(7-9): 139-168.

Baker E. W. 1949. A review of the mites of the family Cheyletidae in the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 99(3238): 267-320.

Baker E. W. and Delfinado M. D. 1975. A new genus of Scutacaridae (Acarina) on a bumble bee from India. Cooperative Economic Insect Report. 25(19): 379-382.

Baker E. W., Delfinado-Baker E. W., Reyes Ordaz F. 1983. Some laelapid mites (Laelapidae: Mesostigmata) found in nests of wasps and stingless bees. International Journal of Acarology. 9(1): 3-10.

Baker E. W., Flechtmann C. H. W., Delfinado-Baker M. 1984. Acari domum meliponinarum Brasiliensium habitantes. 6. New species of Bisternalis Hunter (Laelapidae: Acari). International Journal of Acarology. 10(3): 181-189.

Banaszak J. 1980. [Investigations of the fauna associated in bee-hives]. Fragmenta Faunistica. 25(10): 127-177.

Berlese A, Leonardi G. 1902. Acari sud americani. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 25: 12-18.

Berlese A. 1921 (1920). Centuria quinta di Acari nuovi. Redia. 14(1-2): 143-195.

Berlese A., Leonardi G. 1902. Acari sud americani. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 25: 12-18.

Bochkov A., Fain A. 2001. Phylogeny and system of the Cheyletidae (Acari: Prostigmata) with special reference to their host-parasite associations. Bulletin de l'Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique. Entomologie. 71: 5-36.

Bregetova, N. G. 1977. [Family Aceosejidae]. In: M. S. Gilarov and N. G. Bregetova [Eds] [Opredelitel' obytayshchikh v pochve kleshchey Mesostigmata = Identification key to soil-inhabiting mites Mesostigmata]. Nauka: Leningrad. 169-226.

Bregetova, N. G. 1977. [Family Laelaptidae]. In: M. S. Gilarov and N. G. Bregetova [Eds] [Opredelitel' obytayshchikh v pochve kleshchey Mesostigmata = Identification key to soil-inhabiting mites Mesostigmata]. Nauka: Leningrad. 483-554.

Casanueva M. E. 1992. Acarofauna asociada con Apis mellifera L.: 1. Primeros registros para Chile de Varroa jacobsoni Oudemans y Melittiphis alvearius (Berlese) (Acari, Mesostigmata). Boletin de la Sociedad de Biologia de Concepcion. 63: 51-53.

Casanueva M. E. 1993. Phylogenetic studies of the free-living and arthropod associated Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata). Gayana Zoologia 57(1): 21-46.

Chinniah C., Mohanasundaram M. 1995. Record of new ascid mites (Ascidae: Acari) infesting insects in Tamil Nadu, India. Entomon. 20(3-4): 233-236.

Chmielewski W. 1971. The mites (Acarina) found on bumble-bees (Bombus Latr.) and their nests. Ekologia Polska. 19: 57-71.

Chmielewski W. 1991. Roztocze (Acarida) pszczoly miodnej (Apis mellifera L.) w Polsce. Wiadomosci Parazytologiczne. 37(1): 91-94.

Cross E. A. 1965. The generic relationships of the family Pyemotidae (Acarina: Trombidiformes). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin. 45(2): 29-275.

Cross E. A. and Moser J. S. 1975. A new, dimorphic species of Pyemotes and a key to previously-described forms (Acarina: Tarsonemoidea). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 68(4): 723-732.

Cross E. A., Bohart G. E. 1979. Some observations of the habits and distribution of Trochometridium Cross, 1965 (Acarina: Pyemotidae). Acarologia. 20(2): 286-293.

Crozier L. 1989. Melittiphis alvearius (Berlese) and other mites found in honeybee colonies in Nova Scotia. Journal of Apicultural Research. 28(3): 166-168.

Davis A., MacRory D. 1987. Various mites from Ontario beehives. Canadian Beekeeping. 13: 209.

Davydova M. S. 1988. [New species of gamasid mites associated with bumble bees]. Novye i Maloizvestnye Vidy Fauny Sibiri. 20: 18-32.

Davydova M.S., Bogatyrev N. R. 1990. [The fauna and several peculiarities of ecology of gamasid mites associated with bumblebees]. In: G. S. Zolotarenko [Ed.]. Chlenistonogie i gelminty. Nauka: Novosibirsk. P. 27-33. (In Russian)

De Jong, D., Morse R. A. and Eickwort G. C. 1982. Mite pests of honey bees. Annual Review of Entomology. 27: 229-252.

Delfinado-Baker M. 1994. A harmless mite found on honey bees - Melittiphis alvearius: from Italy to New Zealand. American Bee Journal. 134(3): 199.

Delfinado-Baker M., Baker E. W., and Roubik D. W. 1983. A new genus and species of Hypoaspidinae (Acari: Laelapidae) from nests of stingless bees. International Journal of Acarology. 9(4): 195-203.

Delfinado-Baker M., Baker E. W., Flechtmann C. H. W. 1984. Acari domum meliponinarum brasiliensium habitantes. V. Two new genera and species of Laelapidae (Mesostigmata: Acari) from stingless bee nests. International Journal of Acarology. 10(1): 1984: 3-10.

Dinabandhoo C. L. and Dogra G. S. 1982. The Pyemotids (Aacrina: Pyemotidae) and their significance in apiculture. Indian Bee Journal. 44(2): 29-32.

Eguaras M., Farina, J., Martinez, P. A. 1997. Primera cita dél genero Pneumolaelaps (Acari: Laelapidae) para la región Neotropical. Revista Sociedad Entomologica Argentina 56(1-4): 38.

Eickwort G. C. 1988. The origins of mites associated with honey bees. In: G. R. Needham, R. E. Page Jr, M.Delfinado-Baker and C. Bowman [Eds]. Africanized Honey Bees and Bee Mites. Ellis-Horwood, Ltd.: Chichester, England. 327-338.

Eickwort, G.C. 1990. Associations of mites with social insects. Annual Review of Entomology. 35: 469-488.

Eickwort G. A. 1994. Evolution and life-history patterns of mites assciated with bees. In: Mites: Ecological and Evolutionary Patterns (ed. by M. A. Houck), Chapman & Hall, New York, London. pp. 218-251.

El-Banhawy E. M. 1984[1986]. Morphological studies on the obligatory parasitic mites of honey bees with a new status of the genus Varroa (Acari: Mesostigmata). Zoological Society of Egypt Bulletin. 34: 83-99.

El-Banhawy E. M., Nasr, A. K. 1984(1986). Incidence of mites in bee hives in the State of New York with descriptions of two new species. Bulletin of Zoological Society of Egypt. 34: 76-82.

Evans G. O. 1958. A revision of the British Aceosejinae (Acarina: Mesostigmata). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 131(2): 177-229.

Evans G. O., Till W. M. 1966. Studies on the British Dermanyssidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) Part II Classification. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology. 14(5): 8-370.

Evans G. O., Till W. M. 1979. Mesostigmatic mites of Britain and Ireland (Chelicerata: Acari-Parasitiformes): An introduction to their external morphology and classification. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 35(2): 139-270.

Fain A., Bochkov A. V. 2001a. A review of some genera of cheyletid mites (Acari: Prostigmata) with descriptions of new species. Acarina. 9(1): 47-95.

Flechtmann C. H. W., Fain A., do Carmo A., Leal M. 1985. Acari domum meliponinarum brasiliensium habitantes. VII. Ereynetes (Gymnereynetes) meliponae nov. spec. (Acari, Ereynetidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 45(1-2): 95-99.

Flechtmann, C. H. W. 1983. Acari domum meliponinarum brasiliensium habitantes. 1. Triplogynium irapora, a new species of Triplogyniidae (Celaenopsoidea, Mesostigmata). Acarologia. 24(4): 355-359.

Flechtmann, C. H. W., Camargo, C. A. 1979. Acari associated with stingless bees (Meliponidae, Hymenoptera) from Brazil. In: E. Piffl (Ed.). International Congress of Acarology 4. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest. 315-319 pp.

Fletchtmann C. H. W. 1980. Dois Acaros associados a abelha Apis mellifera L. no Peru. Anais da Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz". 37: 737-741.

Frison T. H. 1922. Notes on the life history, parasites and inquiline associates of Anthophora abrupta Say, with some comparisons with the habits of certain other Anthophoridae (Hymenoptera). Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 48(2): 137-156.

Garrido, C. y M. E. Casanueva. 1995. Acaros foréticos e hiperforéticos sobre Bombus dahlbohmi Guerin, 1835 (Hym., Apidae). Bol. Soc. Biol. Concepción, Chile. Tomo 66: 53-55.

Gibbins B. L., van Toor R. F. 1990. Investigation of the parasitic status of Melittiphis alvearius (Berlese) on honeybees, Apis mellifera L., by immunoassay. Journal of Apicultural Research. 29(1): 46-52.

Grobov O F. 1975. [The mite fauna of the honeybee hive and stored honey]. Trudy Vsesoyuznogo Instituta Eksperimental'noi Veterinarii. 43: 255-267.

Halliday R. B., Walter D. E., Lindquist E. E. 1998. Revision of the Australian Ascidae (Acarina : Mesostigmata). Invertebrate Taxonomy. 12(1): 1-54.

Haragsim O., Samsinak K., Vorbazkova E. 1978. The mites inhabiting the bee hives in CSR. Zeitschrift für angewandte Entomologie. 87: 52-67.

Huck K., Schwarz H. H., Schmid-Hempel P. 1998. Host choice in the phoretic mite Parasitellus fucorum (Mesostigmata: Parasitidae): which bumblebee caste is the best? Oecologia (Berlin). 115(3): 385-390.

Hughes, A. M. (1976). The mites of stored food and houses. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and food - Technical Bulletin No 9. Her Majesty's Stationery Office: London. 1-400 p.

Hunter P. E. 1963. Two genera of mites associated with stingless bees (Acarina: Laelaptidae). Acarologia. 5(1): 5-12.

Hunter P. E. 1966. The genus Pneumolaelaps with description of three new species (Acarina: Laelaptidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 39: 357-369.

Hunter P. E. and Cross E. A. 1968. Key to North American Ereynetinae and description of a new species (Acarina: Ereynetinae). Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 3: 154-158.

Hunter P. E., Husband R. W. 1973. Pneumolaelaps (Acarina: Laelapidae) mites from North America and Greenland. 56(2): 77-91.

Hyatt K. H. 1980. Mites of the subfamily Parasitinae (Mesostigmata: Parasitidae) in the British Isles. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology. 38(5): 237-378.

Karg W. 1982. Zur Kenntnis der Raubmilbeng Hypoaspis Canestrini, 1884 (Acarina, Parasitiformes). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 58(2): 233-256. (descriptions of Hypoaspis (Pneumolaelaps) gigantis (Acari); Hypoaspis (Pneumolaelaps) cavitatis (Acari) from Brazil)

Karg, W. 1984. 1984. Zur Kenntnis der Untergattung Pneumolaelaps Berlese, 1925 der Raubmilbengattung Hypoaspis Canestrini, 1884 (Acarina, Parasitiformes). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 31(1-3): 35-39.

Karg, W. 1985. Die mit Arten der Gattung Bombus Latreille vergesellschafteten Raubmilben der Gattung Parasitus Latreille 1795 (Acarina, Parasitiformes). Zoologische Jahrbuecher Abteilung für Systematik Oekologie und Geographie der Tiere. 112(4): 525-535.

Karg, W. 1988. Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Proctolaelaps Berlese, 1923 (Acarina, Parasitiformes). Zoologische Jahrbücher Abteilung für Systematik &OUML;kologie und Geographie der Tiere. 115(4): 441-454.

Kazmierski A. 1998a. Tydeinae of the world: generic relationships, new and redescribed taxa and keys to all species. A revision of the subfamilies Pretydeinae and Tydeinae (Acari: Actinedida: Tydeidae) - part IV. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. 41(2): 283-455.

Klimov P. B. 1998. To the knowledge of mites and ticks (Acari) of Kuril Islands. Far Eastern Entomologist. 63:1-36.

Klompen J. S. H., Méndez E., Lukoschus F. S. 1984. A new species of the genus Cheletophyes Oudemans, 1914 (Prostigmata: Cheyletidae) from the nest of a carpenter bee in Panama. Acarologia. 25(3): 249-251.

Knihinicki D. K., Halliday R. B. 1995. The pollen mite, Melittiphis alvearius (Berlese) (Acarina: Laelapidae) newly recorded from beehives in Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society. 34(4): 323-325.

Krantz G. W. 1962. A review of the genera of the family Macrochelidae Vitzthum 1930 (Acarina: Mesostigmata). Acarologia. 4(2): 143-173.

Krantz G. W. 1978. A manual of acarology. 2nd ed. Oregon State University Book Stores, Corvallis. 509 pp.

Krantz G. W. 1998. New genus and two new species of hypoaspidine mites (Acari: Laelapidae) associated with Old World carpenter bees of the tribe Xylocopini (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopa). International Journal of Acarology. 24(4): 291-300.

Krantz G. W. 1998. Observations on five rarely collected genera of Macrochelidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) associated with insects. Acarologia. 39(2): 95-109.

Krczal, H. 1957. Sytstematik und &OUML;kologie der Pyemotiden. In: H.-J. Stammer [Ed.] Sytstematik und &OUML;kologie Mitteleuropäischer Acarina. 1(1). Akademissche Verlaggesellschaft, Leipzig: 385-823.

Lindquist E. E. 1985. Discovery of sporothecae in adult female Trochometridium Cross, with notes on analogous structures in Siteroptes Amerling (Acari: Heterostigmata). Experimental and Applied Acarology. 1: 73-85.

Lindquist E. E. 1986. The world genera of Tarsonemidae (Acari: Heterostigmata): A morphological, phylogenetic, and systematic revision, with a reclassification of family-group taxa in the Heterostigmata. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 136: 1-517.

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