Bee Mites : Acari : Acariformes : Sarcoptiformes : Chaetodactylidae : Chaetodactylus
Chaetodactylus dementjevi Zachvatkin, 1941
Chaetodactylus dementjevi Zachvatkin, 1941: 399, Fig. 682 (holotype not designated, one syntype HDN (Uzbekistan) found in ZIN); Klimov & OConnor, 2008: 218 (included in key)
Chaetodactylus (Achaetodactylus) dementjevi: Fain, 1981b: 2
Material (show database records).
Hosts
Megachile bombycina Radoszkowski, 1874
Megachile ligniseca (Kirby, 1802)
Paravespula germanica (Linnaeus) (Vespidae) (accidental host) (Uzbekistan)
Distribution (show map).
Russia: Leningradskaya Oblast', Yaroslavskaya Oblast'; Kazakhstan: Shyghys Qazaqstan (Ust'-Kamenogorsk); Uzbekistan: Toshkent (Gora Aktash) (Zachvatkin, 1941 - Syntype localities)
References
Fain, A. 1981. Notes on the hypopi of the genus Chaetodactylus Rondani, 1866 (Acari, Chaetodactylidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique Entomologie.53: 1-9.
Klimov, P. B. & B. M. OConnor. 2008. Morphology, evolution, and host associations of bee-associated mites of the family Chaetodactylidae (Acari: Astigmata), with a monographic revision of North American taxa. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan.199: 1-243.
Zachvatkin, A. A. 1941. Tiroglifoidnue kleshchi Tyroglyphoidea [=Tyroglyphoid mites Tyroglyphoidea]. In Fauna SSSR: Paukoobraznuye, ed. S. A. Zernov, 475. Moscow-Leningrad: Akademiya Nauk SSSR.
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