Bee Mites : Acari : Acariformes : Sarcoptiformes : Chaetodactylidae : Sennertia : Sennertia species
Sennertia horrida (Vitzthum, 1912)
Trichotarsus horridus Vitzthum, 1912d: 290, Figs 21, 22 (lectotype (A20031430) and 2 paralectotype HDNs (A20031428-29) labeled as Sennertia horrida in ZSMC (Jürgen et al., 2005); designated by Fain, 1981a)
Trichotarsus horrida Fain, 1981a: 170 (as basionym attributed to Vitzthum, 1912d)
Sennertia horrida: Vitzthum, 1919: 57, Figs 51-52 (redescription of HDN, justified emendation of species name); Vitzthum, 1941: 308 (comparison with S. frontalis); Zachvatkin, 1941: 387, Figs 62-64 (redescription of HDN, included in key); Turk, 1948: 85 (comparison with Sennertia donaldi); Klimov et al., 2007b: 124 (included in key, synonymized with S. leucothorae Ramaraju & Mohanasundaram, 2001); Klimov & OConnor, 2008: 229
Sennertia (Sennertia) horrida: Fain, 1981a: 170 (included in key, assigned to horrida group, considered as senior synonym of S. sumatrensis, lectotype designation)
Sennertia sumatrensis Oudemans, 1924: 329 (lectotype and 15 paralectotype HDNs on slide No. 3055 (designated by Fain, 1974b) in RMNH; Indonesia: Sumatra ("Medan, Deli") ex Xylocopa sp.) (synonymized by Fain, 1981a); Fain, 1974b: 228, Figs 9-10, 13-14 (redescription of HDN, lectotype designation)
Sennertia cerambycina (non Scopoli, 1763): Vitzthum, 1929: 92, Fig. 120 (part., Figure 120 only)
Sennertia leucothorae Ramaraju & Mohanasundaram, 2001: 107, Figs 1-3 (holotype (78/2a) and 24 paratype HDNs in TNAU. Paratypes in the BMNH and USNM; India: Tamil Nādu (Coimbatore); ex Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) aestuans (as Xylocopa leucothorae)) (synonymized by Klimov et. al., 2007b)
Material (show database records).
Hosts.
Xylocopa (Biluna) nasalis Westwood, 1842 (as Xylocopa (Koptorthosoma?) dissimilis) (type host)
Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) aestuans (Linnaeus, 1758)
Xylocopa auripennis Lepeletier, 1841
Xylocopa fallax Maidl, 1912
Xylocopa iridipennis Lepeletier, 1841
Xylocopa mcgregori Cockerell, 1920
Xylocopa mimetica Cockerell, 1915
(reviewed Klimov & OConnror, 2008)
Distribution (show map). Indonesia: Java, Jakarta (as "Batavia") (type locality) (Vitzthum, 1912d), Sumatra (Oudemans, 1924); Japan; India: Assam (Zachvatkin, 1941), Tamil Nādu (Ramaraju & Mohanasundaram, 2001), Phillipines (Klimov & OConnror, 2008)
References
Fain, A. 1974. The hypopi of the genus Sennertia Oudemans, 1905 described by Oudemans (Acarina, Sarcoptiformes). Zoologische Meded. Leiden.48: 119-231.
Fain, A. 1981. A revision of the phoretic deutonymphs (hypopi) of the genus Sennertia Oudemans, 1905 (Acari, Astigmata, Chaetodactylidae). Systematic Parasitology.3: 145-183.
Jürgen, R. H., E. Boos, T. Ludwig, M. Wiedemann & T. Stützel. 2005. SysTax - a Database System for Systematics and Taxonomy. http://www.biologie.uni-ulm.de/systax/ (accessed Sep 2005).
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.
Oudemans, A. C. 1924. Acarologische Aanteekehingen LXXVII. Entomologische Berichten (Amsterdam).6: 317-336.
Ramaraju, K. & M. Mohanasundaram. 2001. New phoretic mites (Acari: Chaetodactylidae) on carpenter bees from Tamil Nadu, India. International Journal of Acarology.27: 107-112.
Turk, F. A. 1948. Insecticolous Acari from Trinidad, B.W.I. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.118: 82-125.
Vitzthum, G. H. 1929. Ordnung: Milben, Acari. In Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas. Spinnentiere, eds. P. Brohmer, P. Ehrmann & G. Ulmer, 1-112. Leiptzig: Quelle & Meyer.
Vitzthum, H. 1912. Ueber einige auf Apiden lebende Milben. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie.8: 289-293.
Vitzthum, H. 1919. Acarologische Beobachtungen. 3. Reihe. Archiv für Naturgeschichte.85(Abt. A, no. 5): 1-62.
Vitzthum, H. 1941. Über den Symphorismus einiger unbekannter Tyroglyphiden-Deutonymphen. Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde.12: 307-316.
Zachvatkin, A. A. 1941. Tiroglifoidnue kleshchi Tyroglyphoidea [=Tyroglyphoid mites Tyroglyphoidea]. In Fauna SSSR: Paukoobraznuye, ed. S. A. Zernov, 475. Moscow-Leningrad: Akademiya Nauk SSSR.
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