Sennertia morstatti Vitzthum, 1914

Fig. 1. Sennertia morstatti, phoretic deutonymph, ex Xylocopa nigrita, Cameroon, BMOC 90-1212-018 Click to enlarge

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

Sennertia morstatti Vitzthum, 1914

Sennertia morstatti Vitzthum, 1914: 323, Figs. 16-17 (syntypes: male, 2HDN slides ZSMC A20031431-3 (Jürgen et al., 2005); description of HDN (male not described)); Vitzthum, 1919: 42, Figs 35-41 (redescription of HDN, description of male and female); Zachvatkin, 1941: 42; Skaife, 1952: 76

Sennertia (Sennertia) morstatti: Fain, 1981a: 164, Figs 25, 29, 20 (included in key, redescription, assigned to japonica group, considered as senior synonym of S. moandensis Fain, 1971); Lombert et al., 1987: 113; Sherbef & Duweini, 1980: 245

Sennertia moandensis Fain, 1971: 267 (holotype and 1 paratype HDN in MRAC, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Moanda (as "Moanda, Congo ex belge"), ex Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) nigrita (as Mesotrichia nigrita)) (synonymized by Fain, 1981a)

Sennertia tanythrix (non Fain, 1971) Fain, 1971: 267 (part., specimens from X. nigrita only) (misidentification)

Material (show database records).
Hosts.
Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) nigrita (Fabricius, 1775) (as Koptorthosoma nigrita) (type host)
Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) sp. (as Xylocopa (Koptorthosoma) sp.) (Sudan)
Megachilidae (Congo)
(Vitzthum, 1914; Fain, 1981a)

Distribution (show map). Tanzania: Amani ("Amani, Deutsch-Ostafrica") (type locality) (Vitzthum, 1914); Democratic Republic of the Congo; Sudan; (Fain, 1981a); 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. 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).

Lombert, H. A. P. M., B. M. OConnor, F. S. Lukoschus & J. O. Whitaker, Jr. . 1987. Ontogeny, systematics and ecology of Sennertia (Amsennertia) americana Delfinado & Baker, 1976 (Acari: Chaetodactylidae) from the nest of the carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). International Journal of Acarology.13: 113-129.

Sherbef, G. M. & P. K. El-Duweini. 1980. Sennertia duweinii sp. n. (Acaridida: Chaetodactylidae) in Egypt. Proceedings of 1st Conference of Plant Protection Research Institute.3: 245-250.

Skaife, S. H. 1952. The yellow-banded carpenter bee Mesotrichia caffra Linn., and its symbiotic mite, Dinogamasus braunsi Vitzthum. The Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa.15: 63-76.

Vitzthum, H. 1914. 4. Beschreibung einiger neuen Milben. Zoologischer Anzeiger.44: 315-328.

Vitzthum, H. 1919. Acarologische Beobachtungen. 3. Reihe. Archiv für Naturgeschichte.85(Abt. A, no. 5): 1-62.

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