Genus Neotrombidium Leonardi, 1902, family Neotrombidiidae

Prodorsal sclerite, eyes, and anterior hysterosomal setae of the mite Neotrombidium sp. (Neotrombidiidae), larva, ex Xylocopa micans, USA: Florida, BMOC 03-0525-002 title=

Fig. 1. Prodorsal sclerite, eyes, and anterior hysterosomal setae of the mite Neotrombidium sp. (Neotrombidiidae), larva, ex Xylocopa micans, USA: Florida, BMOC 03-0525-002. Click to enlarge

Bee Mites : Acari : Acariformes : Trombidiformes : Neotrombidiidae

Genus Neotrombidium Leonardi, 1902

Trombidium (Neotrombidium) Leonardi, in Berlese and Leonardi, 1902: 18 (Type species Trombidium (Neotrombidium) furcigerum Leonardi, in Berlese and Leonardi, 1902 by monotypy).

Neotrombidium: Lindquist and Vercammen-Grandjean, 1971; Singer, 1971; Beron, 1995: 13.

Type speices Trombidium (Neotrombidium) furcigerum Leonardi, in Berlese and Leonardi, 1902 by monotypy

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General Description. This genus is worldwide in distribution and includes 16 species (Beron, 1995; Lindquist and Vercammen-Grandjean, 1971; Singer, 1971). Larvae are parasitic on unrelated families of subcortical Coleoptera: Cerambicidae, Elateridae, and Cleridae (Lindquist and Vercammen-Grandjean, 1971). We found a single larva of this genus on the bee Xylocopa micans. The level of association of this mite species with the host, thus, is unknown.

Description. The femur is subdivided onto telo- and basifemur. See Lindquist and Vercammen-Grandjean (1971) for other characters.

Hosts. Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 1841.

Distribution (show map).

Species found in association with bees.

Neotrombidium sp.

References

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

Beron, P. 1995. A new larval species of Neotrombidium (Acariformes, Actinedida: Neotrombidiidae) from Cuba. Historia Naturalis Bulgarica.5: 13-18.

Lindquist, E. E. & P. H. Vercammen-Grandjean. 1971. Revision of the chigger-like larvae of the genera Neotrombidium Leonardi and Monunguis Wharton, with a redefinition of the subfamily Neotrombidiinae Feider in the Trombidiidae (Acarina: Prostigmata). Canadian Entomologist.103: 1557-1590.

Singer, G. 1971. Neotrombidium Leonardi (Acarina: Trombidioidea) Part I: Revision of the genus, with description of two new species. Acarologia.13: 119-142.

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