Bee Mites : Acari : Acariformes : Sarcoptiformes : Chaetodactylidae : Sennertia : Sennertia species
Sennertia tanythrix Fain, 1971
Sennertia tanythrix Fain, 1971: 267 (holotype and 15 paratype HDNs in MRAC; description of HDN, collected from 1st metasomal segment in several specimens of X. torrida) (part., excluding specimens from X. nigrita); Klimov & OConnor, 2008: 236
Sennertia (Sennertia) tanythrix: Fain, 1981a: 167, Figs 33, 34, 36 (redescription of HDN, included in key, assigned to japonica-group, paratype specimens from X. nigrita identified as S. morstatti); Haitlinger, 2000: 17
Material (show database records).
Hosts.
Xylocopa (Mesotrichia) torrida (Westwood, 1838) (as Mesotrichia torrida) (type host)
Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) imitator Smith, 1854
Distribution (show map).
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Haut-Congo Prov. "Uélé" (type locality) (Fain, 1971, 1981a); Angola; Cameroon (our data, unpubl.)
References
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.
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.
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.
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