First record of acari Arrenurus Dugès, 1834 as a parasite of Odonata species in Brazil

Rodrigues, Marciel Élio; Carriço, César; Pinto, Zeneida Teixeira; Mendonça, Paloma Martins; Queiroz, Margareth Maria de Carvalho

doi:10.1590/s1676-06032013000400029

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“…Following Lajeunesse (2007), the primary environmental stressor we aimed to measure was larval water mite parasitism; however, we did not capture any parasitized odonates at our site. Many of these species do have reports of water mite parasitism; for example, see Mitchell (1961) for E. simplicicollis; Botman et al (2002) and Mlynarek et al (2013) for I. posita;and Rodrigues et al (2013) for M. marcella water mite parasitism within its native range (Brazil). Water mites are found in almost every type of freshwater habitat, but uncommonly in marine or brackish water (Wolcott 1905), and there are several permanent and temporary fresh water sources near our site.…”

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Diversity and Abundance of Dragonflies and Damselflies in Tampa Bay, Florida

Krause

Köster

MacNeill

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Florida Entomologist

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Little is known about the community of dragonflies and damselflies in Tampa Bay, Florida, USA. To address this gap, we conducted 2 longitudinal surveys of adult odonates in a natural floodplain of the Hillsborough River in 2013 and 2017. Along with abundance and species diversity, we also measured intraspecific variation in body size, sexual dimorphism, wing-cell asymmetry, and water mite ectoparasitism. Our first weekly survey from Oct 2013 to Oct 2014 sampled 327 adults (230 female, 97 male) from 8 dragonfly species, with the eastern pondhawk (Erythemis simplicicollis Say; Odonata: Libellulidae) representing 79% of captures, followed by the second most abundant (14%), the Florida non-native and neotropical hyacinth glider (Miathyria marcella Selys; Odonata: Libellulidae). Our second weekly survey from Sept to Dec 2017, which focused on both damselflies and dragonflies and captured 205 adults from 8 species, with the fragile forktail (Ischnura posita Hagen; Odonata: Coenagrionidae) being the most abundant with 70% of captures. Female-biased sexual size dimorphism was found in both E. simplicicollis and I. posita; however, both sexes were equally variable in size and symmetric in a meristic trait. Female and male M. marcella were equally variable, monomorphic, and symmetric. Combing symmetry data from each sex, only I. posita damselflies were asymmetric overall. Finally, we did not observe any parasitism by larval water mites in either survey. We aim to continue surveys to track seasonal and climate-driven changes in dragonfly diversity and phenology in this region.

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Diversity and Abundance of Dragonflies and Damselflies in Tampa Bay, Florida

Krause

Köster

MacNeill

et al. 2020

Florida Entomologist

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“…Four deutonymphs of R. echinopus associated with A. sexdens were found attached to their heads and, according to SILVA et al (2016), the presence of mites in the head, mouthparts and abdomen of insects make difficult normal feeding behavior. The abundance of mites can also harm the sexual behavior of the phoront (RODRIGUES et al, 2013).…”

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Rhizoglyphus echinopus (Acari: Acaridae) associated with Atta sexdens (Insecta: Formicidae)

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Caetano

Carriço³

et al. 2020

Arq. Inst. Biol.

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Four deutonymphs of bulb mites (hypopus) from Rhizoglyphus echinopus (Fumouze & Robin) (Acari: Acaridae) were found attached to the head of Atta sexdens in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This mite species is commonly associated with ornamental plants and trees with bulbs, corms and tubers. The results of this study provided an insight into the phoretic relationship between mites and ants, indicating the role of the latter in the dispersion of the first. Despite the abundant and diverse mite fauna existing in ants, little is known about their diversity, biology, ecology and the nature of their associations.

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“…De todos los ácaros acuáticos, Arrenurus es el género más diverso, con unas 800 especies con distribución cosmopolita excepto en la Antártica (Smit, 2010). Reportes recientes de este género en el área neotropical incluyen la descripción de cuatro nuevas especies de Cuba (Orghidan & Gruia, 1977), la descripción de 10 nuevas especies encontradas en lagos de México (Cramer & Cook, 1992), el hallazgo de una nueva especie que habita bromelias (fitotelmas) en Venezuela (Rosso de Ferradás y Fernández, 2001) y Arrenurus parasitando varias especies de odonatos en Brasil (Rodrigues et al, 2013).…”

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