Sennertia perturbans Vitzthum, 1919

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

Sennertia perturbans Vitzthum, 1919

Sennertia perturbans Vitzthum, 1919: 48, Figs 42-46 (syntypes in ZSMC: female and male (A20031434), female (A20031436), and TN (A20031435) (Jürgen et al., 2005); description of TN, male, and female); Zachvatkin, 1941: 42; Fain, 1981a: 145; Lombert et al., 1987: 113; Klimov & OConnor, 2008: 233

Hosts. Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) nigrita (Fabricius, 1775) (as Koptorthosoma nigrita)
Distribution. Tanzania: Amani ("Amani, Ostafrica")

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.

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.

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.

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.