Survey of phoretic mites on Dendroctonus brevicomis (N=336) collected from pheromone baited flight traps in Coconino National Forest and Coronado National Forest in Arizona, United States from Summer 2005. Mites identified by J.C. Moser and stored as voucher specimens by R. Hofstetter at Northern Arizona University.

 

Mite species

 

Mite Family

Bonomia sp.          

HistiostomatidaeA

Dendrolael. neodisetus

DigamasellidaeP

Dendrolaelaps sp.

DigamasellidaeP

Elattoma sp.

PyemotidaeA

Histiostoma media

HistiostomatidaeA

Histiogaster anops

AcaridaeA

Histiogaster rotundus

AcaridaeA

Mexecheles virginatius

CheyletidaeP

Paracarophaenax sp.

PyemotidaeA

Parawinterschmidtia furnissi

WinterschniditiidaeA

Procto. subcorticalis

AscidaeP

Tarsonemus ips

TarsonemidaeA

Tarsonemus krantzi

TarsonemidaeA

Trichouropoda australis

UropodidaeP

Trichouropoda hirsute

UropodidaeP

Uroobovella orri

UropodidaeP

                A = Order Acariformes and P = Order Parasitiformes.

 

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