Arthropods associated with world passalid beetles with particular reference to the Diarthrophallidae (Acari: Mesostigmata)
Author
Haitlinger, Ryszard
text
Journal of Natural History
2024
2024-08-12
58
29 - 32
1178
1259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2373490
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2024.2373490
1464-5262
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DIGAMASELLIDAE Evans, 1957
Species from this family were often collected from
Coleoptera, Hymenoptera
and
Diptera (
Hunter and Rosario 1988
)
. About 100 species were collected from
Coleoptera (
Hunter 1993a
)
. However, on the
Passalidae
they are found exceptionally.
Dendrolaelaps passalorum
(
Pearse and Wharton, 1936
)
was found on
Odontotaenius disjunctus
and
Popilius
sp.
(
Delfinado and Baker 1975
;
Hunter 1993a
); and
Dendrolaelaps
sp.
and
Digamasellus
sp.
were found on
O. zodiacus
and
O
.
striatopunctatus
(
Barrios-Torres and Villegas-Guzmán 2015
)
(
Tables 2
,
4
and
8
).