I have an interest in Pyemotes ventricosus &  Pymotes tritici especially as parasites of Anobium punctatum and the effects of their bites on man.  They seem very similar - Are they the same creature?

Would very much appreciate help in finding references in the literature.

Sincerely

Roy Whitehead
BRESSAY
Shetland Islands  UK
ZE2  9ER

See:

 Cross, E.A. & J.C. Moser, 1975
 A new dimorphic species of Pyemotes and a key to previously
 described forms (Acarina: Tarsonemoidea).
 Annals of the Entomological Society of America 68(4):723-732

  "... we conclude that P. tritici ...., not P. ventri-
 cosus .... is the straw itch mite. P. boylei ... is ...
 a synonym of P. tritici ...

     Carlos Flechtmann
     Brazil

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, roy-whitehead wrote:

> I have an interest in Pyemotes ventricosus &  Pymotes tritici especially as parasites of Anobium punctatum and the effects of their bites on man.  They seem very similar - Are they the same creature?
>
> Would very much appreciate help in finding references in the literature.
>
> Sincerely
>
> Roy Whitehead
> BRESSAY
> Shetland Islands  UK
> ZE2  9ER
>
 
 
 

CC: Lincoln.smtp("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")

Hi all,

Heather Proctor and I have been working flat out the last couple of months
to produce a series of computer interactive keys to soil animals.  Beta
versions of the first two of these keys have been posted on the www for
testing.

Soil Microarthropds
http://www.lucidcentral.com/keys/cpitt/public/Mites/Microarthropods/Index.htm

This key is an updated version of one produced last year for use in
Australian Universities and keys to Classes/Orders of non-insects.

Orders, Suborders and Cohorts of Mites in Soil
http://www.lucidcentral.com/keys/cpitt/public/Mites/Soil%20Mites/Index.htm

The Australian Biological Resources Study (the people who produced the
Mites in the Rainforest Poster) has funded the production of the Orders key
and keys to families of Mesostigmata and Prostigmata in soil that we are
still working on.  The full set of keys should be available on CD sometime
in 2001.

The LucID program is a major innovation in diagnostic tools and may seem
very strange to many of you.  However, I can tell you that students quickly
learn to use these keys, seem to enjoy using them far better than the
typical dichotomous key, and often get the right answer.  The last,
however, depends primarily on how good the key is.  I'm sure there are
still lots of mistakes in these versions and we hope that some of you will
find those errors, both mistakes in coding and true errors in knowledge,
and report them to us.

Additionally, I think I should emphasize that we have tried to make these
keys student-friendly.  That is, whenever I could control myself, I would
use simple characters and terms rather than the jargon-heavy and overly
technical approach I'm naturally inclined to.  That means that in addition
to the errors in the key, there will also be exceptions.  Although the keys
are meant to identify animals in Australian soils, I think that at the
class through 'cohort' levels of identification it should be possible to
use these keys anywhere in the world.  So, where you know of exceptions,
please let us know about those too.

Cheers,

Dave Walter

Dr David Evans Walter
Department of Zoology & ENTOMOLOGY
Hartley-Teakle Building
The University of Queensland
St Lucia, QLD 4072 Australia

phone: 07-3365-1564
fax: (61) 7-3365-1922

Visit the Mite Image Gallery at:
http://www.uq.edu.au/entomology/mite/mitetxt.html
Acarina Collection:
http://www.uq.edu.au/entomology/museum/mites/miteord.html

Australian Entomological Society
http://www.uq.edu.au/entomology/aes/intro.html
Myrmecia
http://www.agric.nsw.gov.au/Hort/ascu/myrmecia/myrmecia.htm
 
 
 
 

CC: Lincoln.smtp("Tony.Orchard@ea.gov.au")

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, kamal ahmadi dep kashavarzi wrote:

>  Dear dr.Carlos H.W.Flechtmann
>  Please,send other's e-mail who can help me to identify mits
>  Parasitidae,Tarsonemidae,Macrochelidae and ascidae.
>
>   Kind regards
>   Abolfazl Aliakbari
>
 
 
 

CC: net Acarology <acarology@nhm.ac.uk>

Dear colleagues:

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SAA has been published since 1996 and volume 6 is expected in 2001.
Each volume of SAA contains over 200 printed pages with 30 papers on
all apsects of mites. These papers should not be missed by any serious
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Dear Colleagues,
I am looking for the e-mail addresses of the following:
 Sabina Swift
 J. Shen
 H-F Wang
 L. Qingtian
Can anybody help?
Thank you
Louise

----------------------------------------------------------
Louise Coetzee         Tel: + 27 51 4479609
Dept of Acarology      Fax: + 27 51 4476273
National Museum        acarol@nasmus.co.za
P.O. Box 266           www.nasmus.co.za
Bloemfontein
9300 South Africa

Hello,

Is there someone who can provide me of some information about Amblyseius
montdorensis?  It's a predator of thrips. Thank you in advance.
 

Kris Jans
Quality Control Manager
Biobest N.V.
Ilse Velden 18
B-2260 Westerlo
Belgium
Tel.:+32/14/257980
Fax.:+32/14/257982
E-mail:kris.jans@biobest.be
Site:www.biobest.be
 

Louise, here's my new e-mail address: sabina@hawaii.edu.

Aloha,
Sabina

____________________________________
Sabina F. Swift
Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences
University of Hawaii at Manoa
3050 Maile Way, Gilmore 310
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822-2271
Phone: (808) 956-2445
Fax: (808) 956-2428
E-mail: sabina@hawaii.edu

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Louise Coetzee wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
> I am looking for the e-mail addresses of the following:
>  Sabina Swift
>  J. Shen
>  H-F Wang
>  L. Qingtian
> Can anybody help?
> Thank you
> Louise
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Louise Coetzee         Tel: + 27 51 4479609
> Dept of Acarology      Fax: + 27 51 4476273
> National Museum        acarol@nasmus.co.za
> P.O. Box 266           www.nasmus.co.za
> Bloemfontein
> 9300 South Africa
>
>
 
 
 

CC: Lincoln.smtp("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")

Dear all: I would want to send this email to Dr Nicolas Barre, but I haven't
his electronic address. Could anybody help me? Thanks in advance. Rafael.

Cher ami: Je voudrais avoir un exemplair de votre article:

Attempts to feed Amblyomma variegatum ticks on artificial membranes.
Barré N, Aprelon R, Eugène M
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1998 Jun 29 849 384-90

Et d'autres sur le meme ou similaire theme.

Je travaille maintenant en alimentation artificiel. Je serais tres content
de partager des experiences avec vous. Mon salut. Rafael.

Hi all,

Apparently there were a few problems trying to download the LucID keys that
Heather & I put on the web.  The ones I know of are:

1.  The version put up last week (ie  if you downloaded before Monday, 4
December) had a bug that broke the connection to the text files (htm), so
images could be seen and the key functioned, but the character state
information etc. was not available.  That was fixed as of Monday, so if you
downloaded this week it should work.

2.  LucID is a Windows program.  You must be using an IBM type computer
with Windows 95 or better.  Unfortunately, Mac users can't use the program
unless they can simulate Windows.  They tell me that the next version is
planned to be Mac-friendly.

3.  In some email servers the addresses wordwrapped onto a second line, so
that clicking on the address activated only part of the address.  That is
easily fixed by typing in the missing bits or editing the address in the
message so that it's on one line.

4.  Too many people have been trying to download and the site has been
overwhelmed.  The CPITT people have now set up a second address for access
to the standard player:

http://www.lucidcentral.com/download/Player/Download_Standard.htm

The address for the keys again are:

Soil Microarthropds
http://www.lucidcentral.com/keys/cpitt/public/Mites/Microarthropods/Index.htm

This key is an updated version of one produced last year for use in
Australian Universities and keys to Classes/Orders of non-insects.

Orders, Suborders and Cohorts of Mites in Soil
http://www.lucidcentral.com/keys/cpitt/public/Mites/Soil%20Mites/Index.htm

The Australian Biological Resources Study (the people who produced the
Mites in the Rainforest Poster) has funded the production of the Orders key
and keys to families of Mesostigmata and Prostigmata in soil that we are
still working on.  The full set of keys should be available on CD sometime
in 2001.

Don't forget to checkout the other (non-mite) keys at the site.  If you
have any problems, try contacting Matt Taylor at the cc address above.

Cheers,

Dave Walter

Dr David Evans Walter
Department of Zoology & ENTOMOLOGY
Hartley-Teakle Building
The University of Queensland
St Lucia, QLD 4072 Australia

phone: 07-3365-1564
fax: (61) 7-3365-1922

Visit the Mite Image Gallery at:
http://www.uq.edu.au/entomology/mite/mitetxt.html
Acarina Collection:
http://www.uq.edu.au/entomology/museum/mites/miteord.html

Australian Entomological Society
http://www.uq.edu.au/entomology/aes/intro.html
Myrmecia
http://www.agric.nsw.gov.au/Hort/ascu/myrmecia/myrmecia.htm
 
 
 
 

CC: Lincoln.smtp("M.Taylor@cpitt.uq.edu.au")

several years ago, somebody sent information about research of mad cow
disease agent and its possible transmission by soil mites . I am looking for
this reference. Can you help me? Many thanks
Michel Bertrand
Labo de ZOOGEOGRAPHIE
UNIV. MONTPELLIER3
34199MONTPELLIER CEDEX5
FRANCE

Dear Acarologists:

I am trying to understand the distribution of tenent hairs on the leg tarsi
of free-living Raphignathina.  In non-tetranychoid Raphignathina, are the
hairs only located on the empodium?  Within the Tetranychoidea, are tenent
hairs located on claws + empodium in all families, or only in (some taxa)
of the Tetranychidae?  Any information would be most welcome!

With thanks,
Heather

____________________________________

Dr. Heather Proctor
Australian School of Environmental Studies
Griffith University
Nathan 4111 Queensland, Australia
phone: (07) 3875-3844
fax: (07) 3875-7459
email: H.Proctor@mailbox.gu.edu.au
____________________________________
 

Dear Fellow Colleagues,

 I am writing to request your help in obtaining
samples for the continuation of my project. I urgently
require samples of Psoroptes and Sarcoptes mites - in
particular the Psoroptes.
 I am developing a library of microsatellite markers
for the population genetic analysis of Psoroptes mites with
reference to their exact classification and strain
differences. I desperately need a number of unrelated
population samples on which to test my markers and complete
my strain variation analyses.

 Can anybody supply such samples to me ????

 They ideally need to be preserved in alcohol or
frozen, but scrapings from wild or domestic infections are
equally useful, as are samples from any laboratory kept
colonies.

 If anyone is able and willing to help, please get
in touch, or feel free to pass my details on to anyone else
you think may help.

Thank you for your time

Sincerely
Lucie Evans
(PhD Student)

----------------------
University of Exeter
Hatherly Laboratories
Prince of Wales Road
Exeter, EX4 4PS, UK

tel +44 1392 264389
fax +44 1392 263700
l.m.evans@exeter.ac.uk
 

Dear friends,

Some of you have been asking about progress in publication of the
Proceedings of the Canberra International Congress of Acarology. This
project has taken longer than I had hoped, but is now nearing completion.
All papers have now been typeset, and the publisher has told me that proofs
will be available in January. I will send proofs to authors for checking as
soon as I can after that, and I hope to be able to do that electronically.
If anyone has changed their postal or e-mail address since the Congress, I
would be most grateful to have your new address so we don't have any further
delays.

My best wishes to all for Christmas and the New Year.

Bruce Halliday

***********************************************************
Dr. R. B. Halliday
CSIRO Entomology
GPO Box 1700
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia

Telephone (02) 6246 4085
Mobile 0438 543509
International Telephone (61) (2) 6246 4085
Fax (02) 6246 4000
International Fax (61) (2) 6246 4000

E-mail bruceh@ento.csiro.au
http://www.ento.csiro.au/research/natres/natres.html
***********************************************************
 

Dear friends,
does anyone of you possess informations about possible functions
of setae without innervation.

Any help will be appreciated.  Merry christmas and happy new year

Yours Helge

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Helge Huckfeldt
Zoologisches Institut der CAU
Olshausenstr. 40
24098 Kiel
Germany

Dear all:
I remember some words said by Dr. Michael Costa about feelings of a
taxonomist when he have an unknown species on his hands. These words were
put in their obituary in the journal Acarologia. Unfortunately, I have not
these issue. Could someone transcript to me these beatiful phrase?

A second question is about a generic name of an oribatid.
I believe that the name Liodes it is now replacing by Neoliodes, but in
recent works I read Liodes again. What is the correct name for this genus?

Thank you very much for your help.

I profit this opportunity and send salutations from Laboratorio de
Artrópodos de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina: Merry
Christmas and happy new year!

Sincerely

Pablo
 

***********************************************
* Pablo A. Martinez                           *
* Laboratorio de Artropodos                   *
* Departamento de Biologia                    *
* Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales    *
* Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata       *
* Funes 3350                                  *
* (7600) Mar del Plata                        *
* Argentina                                   *
***********************************************

"Each time an unrecognized mite comes my way I become excited... Going
through the keys, slowly deciding the genus, and then finding that the
specimen in front of me is a mite perhaps described only once before, in
another part of the world... or an undescribed one... nothing compares to
this feeling of hunting for, and finding, a treasure..." he told me more
than once.

Gerson, U. (1993) Michel Costa: an appreciation. Acarologia, 34: 3-8.

Seasons greetings,

Mark Judson
 

_____________________________________

Dr M. Judson
Museum national d'Histoire naturelle
Laboratoire de Zoologie (Arthropodes)
61, rue de Buffon
F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
Tel: + 33 1 4079 3570
Fax: + 33 1 4079 3863
E-mail: judson@mnhn.fr
_____________________________________
 

Dear colleagues

Merry christmas

I wish you a happy, productive and prosperous 2001!
 
 

Best regards
 

Sincerely yours
Merry christmas

Alireza Saboori, Ph.D.
Department of Plant Protection
College of Agriculture
Tehran University
Karaj-IRAN
 

From:  Zhi-Qiang Zhang Zhi-Qiang Zhang <ZhangZ@landcare.cri.nz>
To: Lincoln.smtp("acarology@nhm.ac.uk")
Date:  29 December 2000 4:47pm
Subject:  Acarological E-reprint Library online

Dear colleagues:

Happy New Year!

I am delighted to present to you  <The Acarological E-reprint Library> ---
an online library of e-reprints of acarological papers made available by
the authors/publishers and hosted by Systematic & Applied Acarology
Society (SAAS). All papers are listed by authors alphabetically. All
e-reprints are available for free online access 24 hours a day and 7
days a week.

During the last few weeks, I spent some time in setting up this facility and
it is now up and running at the  website:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/acarology/saas/e-library/

I hope that this e-Library will facilitate the exchange of information among
acarologists in different parts of the world, and especially will benefit
acarologists in developing countries where subscriptions of many
journals published in the West are nearly impossible.

If you want e-reprints of your papers made online here for everyone to
read, please send them to me by e-mail with the e-reprint in pdf (portable
document format) as an attachment, along with a full reference of the
paper in the format used by Systematic & Applied Acarology Society
publications (see below).

Book chapters
Shih, C.I.T. & Huang, J.S. (1991) Functional responses of Amblyseius
womersleyi preying on the kanzawa spider mites. In: Dusbabek, F. &
Bukva, V. (eds.) Modern Acarology Vol. 2. Prague, Academia and The
Hague, SPB Academic Publishing bv. pp. 481-484.

Books
Xin, J.-L. (1988) Agricultural Acarology . Shanghai, Fudan University
Press. 466pp.

Journal papers
Zhu, X.X., Zhang, W.Y. & Oliver, J.H. Jr. (1995) Immunocytochemical
mapping of FMRFamide-like peptides in the argasid tick Ornithodoros
parkeri and the ixodid tick Dermacentor variabilis. Experimental &Applied
Acarology, 19, 1-9.

If you do not use e-mail, you may also send a disk with files by regular
mails to me using the address listed  below.

Inclusion of your e-reprints in the Library is free.

For authors who do not have e-reprints but wish to make their papers
online in this library, Systematic & Applied Acarology Society can convert
their regular reprints into e-reprints at cost. More info is at the
Acarological E-reprint Library's website.

Please join SAAS to make <the Acarological E-reprint Library> a useful
resource for everyone who is interested in mites and ticks!

Best wishes for a happy and productive 2001!

Yours sincerely,

Zhi-Qiang Zhang
Facilitator and Editor, The Acarological E-reprint Library
http://www.nh.ac.uk/hosted_sites/acarology/saas/e-library/
 

Acarologist
Landcare Research
Private Bag 92170
Auckland
New Zealand

Sabelis and co-workers published 2 papers in EAA that concerned the
functional significance of dorsal chaetotaxy in the Phytoseiidae. You
may be interested to check these references:

Experimental and Applied Acarology 16 (1992): 203-225
Experimental and Applied Acarology 18 (1994): 241-245

Happy new year!

Frank Bakker
 

At 9:35 AM +0100 12/21/00, hhuckfeldt@zoologie.uni-kiel.de wrote:
>Dear friends,
>does anyone of you possess informations about possible functions
>of setae without innervation.
>
>Any help will be appreciated.  Merry christmas and happy new year
>
>Yours Helge
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>Helge Huckfeldt
>Zoologisches Institut der CAU
>Olshausenstr. 40
>24098 Kiel
>Germany
>
>
 

Dear All,

I'm currently looking for Dr Donald E. Johnston e-mail address. Could somebody
help me ?

In an other hand, I would be very grateful if someone could provided me copies
of the following papers :

Costa,M.1963. The mesostigmatic mites associated with Copris
hispanus(L.)(Coleoptera,Scarabaeidae)in Israel.J.Linn.Soc.(Zool.),45(303) :
25-45.

Makarova, O. L.1995. Mesostigmatic mites on the forest dung beetle Geotrupes
stercorosus. Zoologichesky Zhurnal 74, 16-23.

Masan, P.1994. The mesostigmatic mites associated with the dung beetles in
South Slovakia. Biologia 49, 201-205.

Takaku, G., Katakura, H. & Yoshida, N.1994. Mesostigmatic mites (Acari)
associated with ground, burying, roving carrion and dung beetles (Coleoptera)
in Sapporo and Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Northern Japan. Zoological Science 11,
305-311.

Thank you very much in advance and best whishes for 2001,

Sincerely,

Jean-Bernard

Jean-Bernard Huchet
7, rue des Capérans
33 000 Bordeaux
FRANCE

e-mail :jbhuchet@club-internet.fr
http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/workers/alpha.htm

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