Research Article
Mites (Acari) Associated with the Desert Seed Harvester Ant, Messor pergandei (Mayr)
Table 4
Number of representative specimens of the six mite genera found on male (M) and female (F) alates on Messor pergandei.
| | Armacarus | Lemanniella | Petalomium | Forcellinia | Histiostoma | Unguidispus | | Colony (1) | M | F | M | F | M | F | F | F | M | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 488 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 507 |
| Total | 0 | 490 | 2 | 54 | 4 | 38 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 593 | Abundance (%) | 82.63 | 9.44 | 7.08 | 0.34 | 0.34 | 0.17 | |
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(1) Colony number corresponds to those listed in Table 2.
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