Bee Mites : Acari : Acariformes : Sarcoptiformes : Chaetodactylidae : Sennertia : Sennertia species
Sennertia surinamensis Fain and Lukoschus, 1971
Sennertia surinamensis Fain and Lukoschus in Fain, 1971: 270 (holotype and 5 paratypes in RMNH); Klimov et al., 2007a: 1371; Klimov et al., 2007b: 121; Klimov & OConnor, 2008: 235 (included in key).
Sennertia (Sennertia) surinamensis: Fain, 1981a: 170, Figs 38, 41-43 (holotype repository emended to IRSNB); Alzuet & Abrahamovich, 1987: 348
Material (show database records). 14 HDNs - FRENCH GUIANA: 6 km. SW of Kourou, ex Ceratina chloris (propodeum) on Borreria (Rubiales: Rubiaceae), 12 Jul 1977, C.D. Michener, USDA, BMOC 96-0510-228.
Description. Known only from phoretic deutonymphs, see key.
Variation. Sclerites of c3 may be indistinct.
Hosts. Ceratina (Calloceratina) chloris.
Distribution (Show map). Suriname: Paramaribo (type locality); French Guiana, Panama.
References
Klimov, P. B., S. B. Vinson & B. M. OConnor. 2007b. Acarinaria in associations of apid bees and chaetodactylid mites. Invertebrate Systematics.21: 109-136.
Klimov, P. B., B. M. OConnor & L. L. Knowles. 2007a. Museum specimens and phylogenies elucidate ecology' s role in coevolutionary associations between mites and their bee hosts. Evolution.61: 1368-1379.
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.
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.
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