Varroa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dermanyssoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Subclassis: Acari Superordo: Parasitiformes Ordo: Mesostigmata Subordo: Dermanyssina Superfamilia: Dermanyssoidea

Varroa Oudemans, 1904

Type species: Varroa jacobsoni Oudemans, 1904, by monotypy.

Gender: feminine [?]

(See Euvarroa Delfinado & Baker, 1974, supposedly treated as junior synonym in El Banhawy, 1986: 86).

Oudemans, A.C. 1904. Acarologische Aanteekeningen XII. Entomologische Berichten 1(18): 160–164. BHL Reference page.

Anderson, D.L. & Trueman, J.W.H. 2000. Varroa jacobsoni (Acari: Varroidae) is more than one species. Experimental and Applied Acarology 24(3): 165–189. Abstract Reference page.
Guzman, L.I. & Delfinado-Baker, M. 1996. A new species of Varroa (Acari: Varroidae) associated with Apis koschevnikovi (Apidae: Hymenoptera) in Borneo. International Journal of Acarology 22 (1): 23–27. DOI: 1080/01647959608684077 . Reference page.
Delfinado, M.D. 1963. Mites of the honeybee in South-East Asia. Journal of Apicultural Research 2(2): 113–114. Reference page.
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. BHL Reference page.
El-Banhawy, E.M. 1986. Morphological studies on the obligatory parasitic mites of honey bees with a new status of the genus Varroa (Acari: Mesostigmata). Zoological Society of Egypt Bulletin 34: 83–99.

Chantawannakul, P., de Guzman, L. I., Li, J. & Williams, G. R. Parasites, pathogens, and pests of honeybees in Asia. Apidologie. 47: 301–324. DOI: 10.1007/s13592-015-0407-5
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. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-63991-zPDF
Zhou, T., Anderson, D.L., Huang, Z.Y., Huang, S., Yao, J., Ken, T. & Zhang, Q. 2004. Identification of Varroa mites (Acari: Varroidae) infesting Apis cerana and Apis mellifera in China. Apidologie 35: 645–654. PDF. Reference page.