Bee Mites : Acari : Acariformes : Sarcoptiformes : Chaetodactylidae : Sennertia : Sennertia species
Sennertia donaldi Turk, 1948
Sennertia donaldi Turk, 1948: 84, Figs 1-4 (Trinidad and Tobago: Saint George: Piarco, Xylocopa frontalis, syntypes in BMNH); Klimov et al., 2007b: 130 (removed from synonymy of Sennertia argentina); Klimov & OConnor, 2008: 148 (included in key)
Sennertia (Spinosennertia) argentina: Fain, 1981a: 176 (part.); Alzuet, Abrahamovich, 1987: 350 (part.); Haitlinger, 1999: 59 (part.)
Material (show database records). 19 HDNs – BRAZIL: Pará, no date, Baker, ex m Xylocopa frontalis, CUIC, HK 84-0820-002; 2 HDNs - Óbidos, ex Centris longimana (lateral mesosoma) (probably accidental association), no date, H. Rolle, CUIC BMOC 95-0422-027; 1 HDN - VENEZUELA: Monagas, 60 km SE Maturín, 23.vi.1958, A. Menke, ex f Xylocopa fimbriata (scutellum), LACM 208291 BMOC 04-1122-028; 16 HDNs - 42 km SE Maturín, 16.vii.1958, A. Menke, ex m X. fimbriata (on lateral mesosoma), LACM 208293, BMOC 04-1122-030; 17 HDNs - same locality, 11.vii.1958, A. Menke, ex m X. fimbriata (1st metasomal tergite), LACM 208295 BMOC 04-1122-032.
Description. Similar to Sennertia argentina, see differences in the key to species of Sennertia.
Hosts.
Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) frontalis (Olivier, 1789) (type host)
Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) fimbriata Fabricius, 1804
Distribution (Show map). Trinidad and Tobago (type locality), Brazil, Venezuela.
Notes. Fain (1981a) synonymized this species with Sennertia argentina. We found distinct differences between S. argentina and S. donaldi (see key) and, therefore, consider the latter as a valid species.
References
Alzuet, A. B. d. & A. H. Abrahamovich. 1987 [1985]. Deutoninfas (hypopi) de los géneros Sennertia Oudemans, 1905 y Horstia Oudemans, 1905 (Acari: Astigmata) sobre Xylocopa (S.) splendidula splendidula Lepeletier, 1841 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina.44: 345-351.
Fain, A. 1981. A revision of the phoretic deutonymphs (hypopi) of the genus Sennertia Oudemans, 1905 (Acari, Astigmata, Chaetodactylidae). Systematic Parasitology.3: 145-183.
Haitlinger, R. 1999. Sennertia herminae sp. n. (Acari, Astigmata: Chaetodactylidae) a phoretic mite associated with Xylocopa sp. (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae) from Madagascar. Folia Entomologica Hungarica.60: 57-59.
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.
Klimov, P. B., S. B. Vinson & B. M. OConnor. 2007. Acarinaria in associations of apid bees and chaetodactylid mites. Invertebrate Systematics.21: 109-136.
Turk, F. A. 1948. Insecticolous Acari from Trinidad, B.W.I. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.118: 82-125.
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