Bee Mites : Acari : Acariformes : Sarcoptiformes : Chaetodactylidae : Sennertia : Sennertia species
Sennertia indica Delfinado and Baker, 1976
Sonnertia indica [sic!] Delfinado & Baker, 1976: 87, Figs 35, 36 (holotype HDN in USNM (no. 3687), 2 paratype HDNs in NYSM)
Sennertia indica: Fain, 1981a: 182 (considered as inadequately described); Klimov & OConnor, 2008: 230
Seneria [sic!] indica: Ramaraju & Mohanasundaram, 2001: 107
Material (show database records).
Hosts.
Ceratina binghami Cockerell, 1908 (type host, as Tithitis binghami)
Ceratina smaragdula (Fabricius, 1787)
Distribution. India: Haryāna (Hisār) (type locality, as Hissar) (Delfinado & Baker, 1976); China (our data)
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.
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.
B. OConnor and P. Klimov ©
Created: Jun 10, 2011
Last modified: 