Biology:Euvarroa

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Euvarroa is a genus of parasitic mesostigmatan mites associated with bees, originally placed into its own family, Varroidae, but later revised as a subfamily.[1][2]

Species

The genus Euvarroa contains two species:[3]

  • Euvarroa sinhai Delfinado & Baker, 1974[1] – a relatively benign parasite of Apis florea.
  • Euvarroa wongsirii Lekprayoon & Tangkanasing, 1991[4] – a relatively benign parasite of Apis andreniformis.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Delfinado, M. D.; Baker, E. W. (1974). "Varroidae, A new family of mites on honey bees (Mesostigmata: Acarina)". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 64 (1): 4–10. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39873197. 
  2. Oh J., Lee S., Kwon W., Joharchi O., Kim S., Lee S. 2024. Molecular phylogeny reveals Varroa mites are not a separate family but a subfamily of Laelapidae. Scientific Reports. 14(1): 13994.
  3. "Euvarroa" (in en). https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/7NZXT. 
  4. Lekprayoon, C.; Tangkanasing, P. (1991). "Euvarroa wongsirii, a new species of bee mite from Thailand". International Journal of Acarology 17 (4): 255–258. doi:10.1080/01647959108683915. ISSN 0164-7954. 

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