Sennertia simplex (Trägårdh, 1904)

Fig. 1. Sennertia simplex, phoretic deutonymph, ex Xylocopa nigrita, Africa, HK 85-0115-002 Click to enlarge

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

Sennertia simplex (Trägårdh, 1904)

Trichotarsus simplex Trägårdh, 1904: 156, Figs 17-18 (holotype HDN in NHRS (Fain, 1981a)); Vitzthum, 1919: 32 (comparison with S. morstatti); Vitzthum, 1941: 308 (comparison with S. frontalis and Sennertia argentina); Zachvatkin, 1941: 42; Klimov & OConnor, 2008: 235

Sennertia (Sennertia) simplex: Fain, 1981a: 159, Figs 12-14, 74 (redescription of HDN, included in key, assigned to group cerambycina); Haitlinger, 2000: 17

Material (show database records).
Hosts. Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) nigrita (Fabricius, 1775)
Distribution. Cameroon

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.

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.

Trägårdh, I. 1904. Drei neue acariden aus Kamerun. Entomologisk Tidskrift.25: 151-160.

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

Vitzthum, H. 1941. &UUML;ber den Symphorismus einiger unbekannter Tyroglyphiden-Deutonymphen. Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde.12: 307-316.

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