Bee Mites : Acari : Acariformes : Sarcoptiformes : Chaetodactylidae : Sennertia : Sennertia species
Sennertia koptorthosomae (Oudemans, 1901)
Trichotarsus koptorthosomae Oudemans, 1901: 82, Fig. 3.53-54 (part., not distinguished from S. v. vanderhammeni and S. v. brevipilis; description of HDN from "acarid chamber", included in key) (lectotype and paralectotype HDN in RMNH, designated by Fain, 1974b); Oudemans, 1903a: 147 (included in key, assigned to group D in Trichotarsus); Trichotarsus koptorthosomae: Vitzthum, 1912d: 290 (part.)
Sennertia koptorthosomae: Vitzthum, 1919: 3 (part.); Oudemans, 1924: 329; Vitzthum, 1941: 310 (comparison with S. argentina); Zachvatkin, 1941: 42; Fain, 1974b: 219, Figs 1-2 (redescription, lectotype designation); OConnor 1993b: 161 (nidicolous feeding instars either of this species or S. hipposideros); Krantz, 1998: 298; Klimov & OConnor, 2008: 231
Sennertia (Sennertia) koptorthosomae: Fain, 1981a: 156 (included in key, assigned to cerambycina-group)
Sennertia koporthosomae Buitendijk, 1945: 358 (lapsus)
Trichotarsus coptorthosomae Trägårdh, 1904: 156 (unjust. emend.; comparison with S. simplex)
Sennertia coptorthosomae: Oudemans, 1905a: 22 (unjust. emend.)
Material (show database records).
Biology. Found in metasomal acarinarium (OConnor, 1993b). Dorsal hysterosoma with a distinct, elongated sporotheca, serving for transport of fungal spores (Klimov & OConnor, 2008). The mite probably feeds on the fungi inside the bee nest.
Hosts.
Xylocopa (Mesotrichia) tenuiscapa Westwood, 1840 (type host)
Xylocopa (Mesotrichia) latipes (Malaysia)
(Fain, 1974b; OConnor, 1993b)
Distribution (show map). Indonesia: Java (type locality), Sumatra ("Medan, Deli") (Fain, 1974b), Malaysia (OConnor 1993b)
References
Buitendijk, A. M. 1945. Voorloopige catalogus van de acari in de collectie-Oudemans Zoologische Mededeelingen.24: 281-391.
Fain, A. 1974. The hypopi of the genus Sennertia Oudemans, 1905 described by Oudemans (Acarina, Sarcoptiformes). Zoologische Meded. Leiden.48: 119-231.
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.
Krantz, G. W. 1998. A new genus and two new species of hypoaspidine mites (Acari: Laelapidae) associated with old world carpenter bees of the tribe Xylocopini (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopa). International Journal of Acarology.24: 291-300.
OConnor, B. M. 1993. The mite community associated with Xylocopa latipes (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae: Xylocopinae) with description of a new type of acarinarium. International Journal of Acarology.19: 159-166.
Oudemans, A. C. 1901. Notes on Acari. 3d ser. Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging. Leiden.7: 50-87 + plates i-iii.
Oudemans, A. C. 1903. Notes on Acari: Fifth Series. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie.45: 123-150.
Oudemans, A. C. 1905. Acarologische Aanteekeningen XX. Entomologische Berichten.2: 15-23.
Oudemans, A. C. 1924. Acarologische Aanteekehingen LXXVII. Entomologische Berichten (Amsterdam).6: 317-336.
Trägårdh, I. 1904. Drei neue acariden aus Kamerun. Entomologisk Tidskrift.25: 151-160.
Vitzthum, H. 1912. Ueber einige auf Apiden lebende Milben. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie.8: 289-293.
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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