Bee Mites : Acari : Acariformes : Sarcoptiformes : Chaetodactylidae : Sennertia : Sennertia species
Sennertia robusta Delfinado and Baker, 1976
Sennertia robusta Delfinado & Baker, 1976: 87, Figs 37-38 (holotype (no. 3688) and 2 paratype HDNs in USNM); Klimov & OConnor, 2008: 234
Sennertia (Sennertia) robusta: Fain, 1981a: 157 (included in key, assigned to cerambycina-group); Haitlinger, 2000: 18
Senertia [sic!] robusta: Ramaraju & Mohanasundaram, 2001: 107
Sennertia carpenteri Ramaraju & Mohanasundaram, 2001: 109, Figs 7-9 (holotype (No. 55/1) and 3 paratype HDNs in TNAU; India: Tamil Nādu, Coimbatore, ex Xylocopa (Nodula) amethystina (Fabricius, 1793)), synonymized by Klimov & OConnor (2008)
Material (show database records).
Hosts.
"megachilid bee (PL-480; India: Hissar; probably in BLCU) (type host)
Xylocopa sp. ("India", probably in USNM)
Xylocopa (Nodula) amethystina (Fabricius, 1793)
(Delfinado & Baker, 1976; Ramaraju & Mohanasundaram, 2001)
Distribution (show map). India, Haryāna (Hisār) ("Hissar") (type locality) (Delfinado & Baker, 1976), Tamil Nādu (Ramaraju & Mohanasundaram, 2001).
References
Delfinado, M. D. & E. W. Baker. 1976. Notes on hypopi (Acarina) associated with bees and wasps (Hymenoptera). Journal of the New York Entomological Society.84: 76-90.
Fain, A. 1981. A revision of the phoretic deutonymphs (hypopi) of the genus Sennertia Oudemans, 1905 (Acari, Astigmata, Chaetodactylidae). Systematic Parasitology.3: 145-183.
Haitlinger, R. 2000. Sennertia aldeodadi sp. n. (Acari: Astigmata, Chaetodactylidae), a mite associated with undetermined Anthophoridae (Hymenoptera) from Mauritius. Folia Entomologica Hungarica.61: 17-21.
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.
Ramaraju, K. & M. Mohanasundaram. 2001. New phoretic mites (Acari: Chaetodactylidae) on carpenter bees from Tamil Nadu, India. International Journal of Acarology.27: 107-112.
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