Genus Eucheyletia Baker, 1949, family Cheyletidae

Eucheyletia bakeri Volgin, 1963, female, dorsal view (left) and gnathosoma, dorsal view (right), bumblebee nets, Alaska (modified from Baker, 1949) title=

Fig. 1. Eucheyletia bakeri Volgin, 1963, female, dorsal view (left) and gnathosoma, dorsal view (right), bumblebee nets, Alaska (modified from Baker, 1949). Click to enlarge

Bee Mites : Acari : Acariformes : Trombidiformes : Cheyletidae

Genus Eucheyletia Baker, 1949

Eucheyletia Baker, 1949: 294 (type species Eucheyletia bishoppi Baker, 1949 by original designation); Volgin, 1969: 120; Fain and Bochkov, 2001a: 48.

Type speices Eucheyletia bishoppi Baker, 1949

General Description. This genus includes ten species distributed in the Holarctic and Oriental regions. It is primarily associated with nests of rodents. Species of this genus were also found in nests of other small mammals and birds, on oat seeds, barn and house dust (Fain and Bochkov, 2001a; Volgin, 1969). Two species were found in associations with bees. Eucheyletia bakeri is known from a single record from the nest of a bumblebee in the USA (Baker, 1949; Volgin, 1963). Eucheyletia flabellifera was collected from honeybee hives in Europe (Haragsim et al., 1978).

Species found in association with bees.

Eucheyletia bakeri Volgin, 1963
Eucheyletia flabellifera (Michael, 1878)

References

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: 267-320.

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

Haragsim, O., K. Samšiňák & E. Vobrázková. 1978. The mites inhabiting the bee hives in ČSR. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Entomologie.87: 52-67.

Volgin, V. I. 1969. Kleshchi semeystva Cheyletidae mirovoy fauny. Leningrad: Nauka. 432 [in Russian, English translation: Volgin V. I. 1987. Acarina of the Family Cheyletidae of the World. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi. 1-532]. pp.

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Eucheyletia bakeri