Eucheyletia bakeri Volgin, 1963, 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 : Eucheyletia

Eucheyletia bakeri Volgin, 1963

Eucheyletia bakeri Volgin, 1963: 62, Figs 3, 5-7; Volgin, 1969: 149, Figs. 143-145; Summers & Price, 1970: 35 (Baker's voucher slides not found in USNM); Fain and Bochkov, 2001a: 49.

Eucheyletia harpyia: Baker, 1949: 294, Figs. 76-79.

Hosts. Bombus sp. (Baker, 1949).

Distribution. USA: Alaska, Beaver Mountains (Baker, 1949).

Biology. Three females of this species have been collected from the nest of a bumble bee (Baker, 1949). This record is probably accidental because it has not been confirmed and this type of habitat is unusual for the genus. On the other hand, there are mite genera (Kuzinia, Parasitellus) that occur both in rodent and bumble bee nests. This may be explained by the fact that bumble bees often construct their nests in borrows of rodents.

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.

Volgin, V. I. 1963. [Materials on systematics of predatory mites of the family Cheyletidae (Trombidiformes)]. Parazitologicheskiy sbornik Zoologicheskogo Instituta akademii nauk SSSR.21: 44-68.

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

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