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| | Bee Mites - Family Cheyletidae: Cheletophyes, Nodele, Eucheyletia |
 | | The genus Cheletophyes is distributed in the Oriental, Afrotropic, and Neotropic realms with eight species obligatory associated with bees of the genus Xylocopa (several records from other hosts are probably accidental) (Fain and Bochkov, 2001a,b). |
 | | All stages of these mites are predators of different microarthropods feeding on provision in the bees' nests (Eickwort, 1994). |
 | | This genus includes five species collected from forest litter, under bark, on bostrichid beetles, galleries of bark beetles, nest of sparrow (Passer), and grain in the Holarctic, Oriental, and Afrotropic realms (Fain and Bochkov, 2001a, Kuznetsov, 1977; Thewke and Enns, 1968; Wafa and Soliman, 1968). |
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