Urozercon melittophilus Silvestri, 1911, family Laelapidae

Urozercon melittophilus, ex Partamona cupira, Brazil (after Silvestri, 1911) title=

Fig. 1. Urozercon melittophilus, ex Partamona cupira, Brazil (after Silvestri, 1911). Click to enlarge

Bee Mites : Acari : Parasitiformes : Mesostigmata : Laelapidae : Urozercon

Urozercon melittophilus Silvestri, 1911

Urozercon melittophilus Silvestri, 1911: 70. Fig. VI.1; Salt, 1929: 447 (mention, year of description given as 1910); Vitzthum, 1930: 289 (mention); Flechtmann & Camargo, 1979: 315 (mention, type locality emended to Coxipá, year of description given as 1910); Eickwort, 1988: 329 (listed in table).

Hosts. Partamona cupira (Smith, 1863) (as Trigona cupira) (type host)

Distribution. Brazil: Matto Grosso, Coxipó (type locality)

Biology. Found on the bee's metasoma.

References

Eickwort, G. C. 1988. The origins of mites associated with honey bees. In Africanized honey bees and bee mites, eds. G. R. Needham, R. E. Page, M. Delfinado-Baker & C. E. Bowman, 327-338. Chichester: Ellis Horwood.

Flechtmann, C. H. W. & C. A. Camargo, De 1979. Acari associated with stingless bees (Meliponidae, Hymenoptera) from Brazil. In Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of Acarology, 1974, ed. E. Piffl, 315-319. Budapest: Académiai Kiadó.

Salt, G. 1929. A contribution to the ethology of the Meliponinae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London.77: 431-468+29 Plates.

Silvestri, F. 1911. Della Trigona cupira Smith e di due ospiti del suo nido nel Messico. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura in Portici.5: 65-71.

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Urozercon melittophilus, ex Partamona cupira, Brazil (after Silvestri, 1911)