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Issue: Vol. 4067 No. 3: 22 Jan. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.8
Page range: 394–400
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Description of a new species of Oplitis Berlese, 1884, and the first record of a phoretic uropodid mite (Acari: Oplitidae) on a Neotropical solitary wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Hymenoptera, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), Lavras, MG, Brazil.
Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1525 Budapest, P.O. Box 102, Hungary
Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Hymenoptera, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), Lavras, MG, Brazil.
Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Hymenoptera, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), Lavras, MG, Brazil.
Acari phoresy Uropodina host Zethus Eumeninae Brazil

Abstract

The association of an uropodid mite with a solitary eumenine wasp is reported for the first time. Five mite specimens were found on a specimen of the wasp Zethus pallidus Smith, 1857, collected in southeastern Brazil. The mites are described as a new species, Oplitis ticumbi Kontschán & Bernardi sp. nov. In addition some notes on the biology of these mite specimens associated with Z. pallidus are presented.

 

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