Bee Mites : Acari : Acariformes : Sarcoptiformes : Chaetodactylidae : Sennertia : Sennertia species
Sennertia jeanalexi Fain, 1971
Sennertia jeanalexi Fain, 1971: 269 (holotype and 15 paratypes in MRAC; short description of HDN); Fain, 1974a: 216 (comparison with Sennertia basilewskyi); Klimov & OConnor, 2008: 230
Sennertia (Afrosennertia) jeanalexi: Fain, 1981a: 178, Figs 54, 57, 58 (redescription, included in key); Fain, 1982: 67 (comparison with S. queenslandica); OConnor, 1993a: 362 (genus-level character acquisition)
Material (show database records).
Hosts.
Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) nigrita (Fabricius, 1775) (type host from Bubulu) (Cameroon)
Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) lepeletieri Enderlein, 1903 (Bambesa)
Distribution (show map). Democratic Republic of the Congo: "Bubulu river, near Mvungu, Mayumbe" (type locality), (Bambesa Fain, 1971); Cameroon (our data)
References
Fain, A. 1971. Nouveaux hypopes du genre Sennertia Oudemans,1905. (Acarina: Glycyphagidae). Bulletin et Annales de la Societe Royale d'Entomologie de Belgique.107: 264-271.
Fain, A. 1974. Nouveaux hypopes phorétiques d'Hyménoptères africains (Acarina: Sarcoptiformes). Revue de Zoologie Africaine.88: 213-219.
Fain, A. 1981. A revision of the phoretic deutonymphs (hypopi) of the genus Sennertia Oudemans, 1905 (Acari, Astigmata, Chaetodactylidae). Systematic Parasitology.3: 145-183.
Fain, A. 1982. Sennertia Oudemans (Acari, Chaetodactylidae) on Australian bees. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.106: 67-70.
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.
OConnor, B. M. 1993. Generic relationships in the Chaetodactylidae (Acari: Astigmata) with description of a new genus. Acarologia.34: 345-362.
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