| Title |
First record of parasitism of water mite larva (Acari: Hydrachnidia) on the pupa of Trichoptera
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Acta Parasitologica, March 2015
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| DOI | 10.1515/ap-2015-0028 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Edyta Buczyńska, Paweł Buczyński, Andrzej Zawal, Grzegorz Michoński, Agnieszka Szlauer-Łukaszewska |
| Abstract |
During the studies on ecology of Trichoptera of anthropogenic water bodies we have unexpectedly discovered the parasitic larvae of water mites of the species Tiphys torris on the pupa of Triaenodes bicolor. This is the first documented case of the parasitism of water mites on the caddisfly pupa as well as the first ever record of the species which is regarded as a dipteran parasite on caddisflies. The situation is very untypical for preimaginal stages of caddisflies are used by phoretic and not parasitic water mite larvae. Parasitism has been confirmed in this case by the formation of stylostomes and enlarged sizes of the bodies of the larvae. This is probably the case of facultative parasitism in which the pupa has served as a substitute of the adult form of a caddisfly. |
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