Bee Mites : Acari : Acariformes : Sarcoptiformes : Chaetodactylidae : Sennertia : Sennertia species
Sennertia delfinadoae Fain, 1981
Sennertia (Asiosennertia) delfinadoae Fain, 1981a: 172, Figs 44-46, 63 (holotype HDN in IRSNB; description of HDN, included in key)
Sennertia delfinadoae Klimov & OConnor, 2008: 227
Sennertia bakeri Ramaraju & Mohanasundaram, 2001: 109, Figs 4-6 (holotype (78/2b) and 3 paratype HDNs in TNAU), description of HDN ex Xylocopa (Nodula) amethystina, India: Tamil Nādu (Coimbatore)), synonymized by Klimov and OConnor, 2008
Material (show database records).
Hosts.
"rat" (type host, acknowledged as accidental) (Fain, 1981a)
Xylocopa (Nodula) amethystina (Fabricius, 1793)
Distribution. India
References
Fain, A. 1981. A revision of the phoretic deutonymphs (hypopi) of the genus Sennertia Oudemans, 1905 (Acari, Astigmata, Chaetodactylidae). Systematic Parasitology.3: 145-183.
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.
Ramaraju, K. & M. Mohanasundaram. 2001. New phoretic mites (Acari: Chaetodactylidae) on carpenter bees from Tamil Nadu, India. International Journal of Acarology.27: 107-112.
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