Tropilaelaps mercedesae Anderson & Morgan, 2007

Bandyopadhyay, Pritha, Karmakar, Krishna & Halliday, Bruce, 2023, Checklist of Indian mites in the family Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 5249 (4), pp. 401-424 : 414-415

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.4.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C6FC7844-EF82-45AB-9B55-2B7130D9872D
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7696379
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/203B87C0-FFFC-FFD2-FF05-F9ABFFE3FE79
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Tropilaelaps mercedesae Anderson & Morgan, 2007
status

Treatment

Tropilaelaps mercedesae Anderson & Morgan, 2007: 21 .

Tropilaelaps clareae .— Stephen, 1968: 119; Bharadwaj, 1968: 115; Atwal & Goyal, 1971: 137; Prasad, 1974: 153; Bhasker & Putatunda, 1989: 288; Abrol, 1996: 16; Abrol & Putatunda, 1996: 59; Abrol & Kakroo, 1997: 151; Sharma, 2002: 55; Putatunda & Abrol, 2003: 1022; Baker et al., 2005: 17; Warrit & Lekprayoon, 2011: 354; Kotwal et al., 2013; Thakur et al., 2021: 115.

Tropilaelaps mercedesae .—Painka, 2020: 151; Haran et al., 2021: 219; Moraes et al., 2022: 394.

Collection records in India: India, on Apis mellifera ( Stephen, 1968) View in CoL ; New Delhi, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, in Apis dorsata View in CoL colony ( Hymenoptera : Apidae View in CoL ) ( Bharadwaj, 1968); Ludhiana, in Apis mellifera View in CoL hives ( Atwal & Goyal, 1971); Haryana, on Apis dorsata View in CoL , A. mellifera View in CoL and A. florea View in CoL ( Hymenoptera : Apidae View in CoL ) ( Bhasker & Putatunda, 1989); Bangalore, on Xylocopa irridipennis ( Abrol & Putatunda, 1996) ; Jammu, on Apis dorsata View in CoL , Apis mellifera View in CoL and Apis cerana View in CoL ( Hymenoptera : Apidae View in CoL ) ( Abrol & Kakroo, 1997); Himachal Pradesh, multiple sites, hives of Apis mellifera ( Sharma, 2002) View in CoL ; Bangalore, in a colony of Apis dorsata View in CoL ( Hymenoptera : Apidae View in CoL ) ( Anderson & Morgan, 2007); Jammu and Kashmir, in Apis mellifera View in CoL hives ( Kotwal et al., 2013); India, on Apis dorsata View in CoL and Apis mellifera (Painka, 2020) View in CoL ; Tamil Nadu, Pollachi, Coimbatore district ( Haran et al. 2021); Solan, Himchal Pradesh ( Thakur et al., 2021).

Notes: Anderson & Morgan (2007) showed that Tropilaelaps clareae does not occur in India. All Indian records of T. clareae are here treated as misidentifications of T. mercedesae .