1 Reply by stevemcbill

  • stevemcbill
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Re: Tracheal Mites in Honey Bee Colonies

The tracheal (Acarine) mite Acarapis woodi (Rennie, 1921) infects Honey Bees and can be instrumental in wiping out colonies of bees which can have a dramatic impact on the industry.

Sadly, this species is NOT in the current NBN/Recorder dictionaries.  Could I request that it is added asap so that these pests can be recorded ??

Many thanks.

Steve

Phylum:             Arthropoda
Subphylum:     Chelicerata
Class:             Arachnida
Subclass:     Acari
Superorder:     Acariformes
Order:             Prostigmata
Suborder:     Eleutherengona
(unranked):     Heterostigmata
Superfamily:     Tarsonemoidea
Family:             Tarsonemidae
Genus:             Acarapis
Species:     Acarapis woodi (Rennie, 1921)

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2 Reply by CharlesHussey

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Re: Tracheal Mites in Honey Bee Colonies

Dear Steve,

Acarapis woodi (Rennie, 1921) is already in the Species Dictionary - entered on 11/06/2007.

The list in the Dictionary to find it is "Fauna Europaea checklist of Prostigmata (Acari) of Britain and Northern Ireland" and its Taxon Version Key is NHMSYS0020190393.

Regards,

Charles Hussey

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3 Reply by stevemcbill (edited by stevemcbill 20-04-2010 21:53:54)

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Re: Tracheal Mites in Honey Bee Colonies

Charles,

Many thanks for that - BUT - if I do a search for Acarapis woodi on the Gateway it returns a message saying "No species matching your search term, Acarapis woodi were found.".

If this species was entered into the Dictionaries in 2007 then I would have expected it to be available on the Gateway by now (and in Recorder-6) and following the recent Gateway changes that it should return the name even if no records existed for the species on the Gateway.  Am I incorrect in my assumptions ??

Cheers

Steve

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