Bee Mites : Acari : Acariformes : Sarcoptiformes : Chaetodactylidae : Sennertia : Sennertia species
Sennertia potanini Zachvatkin, 1941
Sennertia potanini Zachvatkin, 1941: 390, Figs 669-671 (Lectotype and 6 paralectotype HDNs in ZIN, designated by Klimov & OConnor (2008); description of HDN, included in key); Klimov et al., 2007b: 125 (included in key); Klimov & OConnor, 2008: 233
Sennertia (Sennertia) potanini: Fain, 1981a: 170 (redescription of HDN, included in key, assigned to horrida-group)
Material (show database records).
Hosts. Xylocopa (Biluna) tranquebarorum (Swederus, 1787) or Xylocopa (Bomboixylocopa) rufipes Smith, 1852 (as Xylocopa pictifrons)
Distribution. China: Sichuan (Yazhou)
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.
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.
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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