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


Sennertia caffra Vitzthum, 1919

Sennertia caffra Vitzthum, 1919: 53, Figs 47-50 (lectotype HDN (A20031423), 2 male (A20031419, -26), 1 nymph (A20031424), 5 HDN (A20031420-22, 25) paralectotype slides labeled as "Sennertia caffra Vitzthum, 1920" in ZSMC) (Jürgen et al., 2005); Vitzthum, 1941: 310 (comparison with Sennertia argentina, year of species description indicated as 1920); Klimov & OConnor, 2008: 224

Sennertia (Sennertia) caffra: Lombert et al., 1987: 113; Fain, 1981a: 159, Figs. 15-17, 69 (lectotype designation: HDN V3094 (A20031423); redescription, included in key, mention of 11 paralectotype slides with males and HDNs, included in cerambycina-group)

Hosts. Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) caffra (as Koptorthosoma caffra)
Distribution. South Africa: Eastern Cape (Willowmore) ("Willowmore, Kapland")

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.
Jürgen, R. H., E. Boos, T. Ludwig, M. Wiedemann & T. Stützel. 2005. SysTax - a Database System for Systematics and Taxonomy. http://www.biologie.uni-ulm.de/systax/ (accessed Sep 2005).
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.
Lombert, H. A. P. M., B. M. OConnor, F. S. Lukoschus & J. O. Whitaker, Jr. . 1987. Ontogeny, systematics and ecology of Sennertia (Amsennertia) americana Delfinado & Baker, 1976 (Acari: Chaetodactylidae) from the nest of the carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). International Journal of Acarology.13: 113-129.
Vitzthum, H. 1919. Acarologische Beobachtungen. 3. Reihe. Archiv für Naturgeschichte.85(Abt. A, no. 5): 1-62.
Vitzthum, H. 1941. Über 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.


 

 

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