Table Description

Table Description. The abundance and feeding behavior of phoretic mites collected from Ips pini during summer 2005 in the Coconino National Forest, Arizona, United States. Generalist = feeds on multiple fungi, nematodes, and dead invertebrates. Mycetophagous = feeds on fungi, often transports and disperses reproductive structures of fungi. We categorize phoretic mites abundance on beetles as rare (< 1% of beetles have this species), Infrequent (1-5%), common (5-20%), and frequent (>20%). Mites identified by J.C. Moser and stored as voucher specimens by R. Hofstetter at Northern Arizona University.

Phoretic mite species	Mite Family	Feeding guild	Relative abundance
Bonomia sp.	Histiostomatidae^A	?	Rare
Brevipalpus sp. nr. pini	Tenuipalpidae^A	Phytophagous	Rare
Dendrolaelaps neodisetus	Digamasellidae^P	Nematode predator	Infrequent
D. quadrasetus	Digamasellidae^P	Nematode predator	Common
Elattoma sp.	Pyemotidae^A	Mycetophagous	Frequent
Heterotarsonemus lindquisti	Tarsonemidae^A	Mycetophagous	Rare
Histiogaster anops	Acaridae^A	Generalist	Common
Histiostoma varia	Histiostomatidae^A	Filter feeder	Common
Iponemus truncatus	Tarsonemidae^A	Egg parasitoid	Frequent
Mexecheles virginiensis	Cheyletidae^P	Predator	Rare
Paracarophaenax sp.	Pyemotidae^A	Egg parasitoid	Rare
Parawinterschmidtia sp.	Winterschmidtia^A	?	Infrequent
Proctolaelaps hystrix	Ascidae^P	?	Infrequent
Proctolaelaps subcorticalis	Ascidae^P	?	Rare
Schwiebia sp.	Acaridae^A	Generalist	Infrequent
Tarsonemus ips	Tarsonemidae^A	Mycetophagous	Frequent
Trichouropoda australis	Uropodidae^P	Generalist	Common
T. hirsuta	Uropodidae^P	?	Common
Uroobovella orri	Uropodidae^P	?	Infrequent
Vulgarogamasus lyriformis	Parasitidae^P	Predator	Rare

^A = Order Acariformes and ^P = Order Parasitiformes.

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