Sennertia gargantua Zachvatkin, 1941

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

Sennertia gargantua Zachvatkin, 1941

Sennertia gargantua Zachvatkin, 1941: 385, Figs 656, 657 (holotype originally not designated; syntypes not found in ZIN; description of HDN, included in key); Grobov, 1975: 260; Klimov & OConnor, 2008: 228

Sennertia (Sennertia) gargantua: Fain, 1981a: 155 (included in key, stated that type in ZIN, assigned to cerambycina-group; distribution erroneously indicated as "Turkey" with reference to Zachvatkin (1941))

Hosts.
Xylocopa (Nodula) punctilabris Morawitz, 1894
Xylocopa (Xylocopa) valga Gerstäcker, 1872
(Zachvatkin, 1941)
Distribution. Uzbekistan, Tajikistan (Zachvatkin, 1941), Kyrgyzstan (Grobov, 1975), Iran (Klimov, unpublished)

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.

Grobov, O. F. 1975. [The mite fauna of the honeybee hive and stored honey.]. Trudy Vsesoyuznogo Instituta Eksperimental'noi Veterinarii.43: 255-267.

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.

Zachvatkin, A. A. 1941. Tiroglifoidnue kleshchi Tyroglyphoidea [=Tyroglyphoid mites Tyroglyphoidea]. In Fauna SSSR: Paukoobraznuye, ed. S. A. Zernov, 475. Moscow-Leningrad: Akademiya Nauk SSSR.