Sennertia faini Baker and Delfinado-Baker, 1983 (Acari: Chaetodactylidae)

Bee Mites : Acari : Acariformes : Sarcoptiformes : Chaetodactylidae : Sennertia : Sennertia species

Sennertia faini Baker and Delfinado-Baker, 1983

Sennertia faini Baker & Delfinado-Baker, 1983: 117: Fig. 7-13 (holotype and 5 paratype HDNs in USNM); Alzuet & Abrahamovich, 1987: 350; Klimov & OConnor, 2008: 170
Sennertai faini [sic!] Baker & Delfinado-Baker, 1983: 119
Senertia faini: [sic!] Ramaraju & Mohanasundaram, 2001: 107

Material Holotype HDN (wash) and 5 paratypes (wash, body hairs) - GUATEMALA: Sololá, San Lucas Tolimán (Godínez-Patulul Highway), ex Apis mellifera, 1 Oct 1980, J. Cummings, USNM.

Host. Apis mellifera (alcoholic washings of dead honeybees and on bee hairs)
Distribution (Show map). Guatemala: Sololá
Note. Similar to Sennertia lucrosa (see notes on Sennertia lucrosa and key to species).

References

Baker, E. W. & M. Delfinado-Baker. 1983. New mites (Sennertia: Chaetodactylidae) phoretic on honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) in Guatemala. International Journal of Acarology.9: 117-121.

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.