Mites (Acari) Associated with the Desert Seed Harvester Ant, Messor pergandei (Mayr)

Table 2

Total number of male (M) and female (F) alates collected per colony of the ant Messor pergandei and abundance of associated phoretic mites.

Colony	Total  M	Total F	# M with mites	# F with mites
1	15	6	2	6
2	9	48	0	11
3	7	30	0	6
4	2	1	0	0
5^1	1	3	0	2
6	0	10	- - -	7
7	0	1	- - -	0
8	5	1	0	0
9^1	0	2	- - -	2
10	0	4	- - -	0
11	56	5	4	2
12	2	46	0	46
13	14	0	0	- - -
14	4	13	0	0
15	10	16	0	0
16	15	4	0	0

¹Two colonies collected at the Cox Rd site. All other colonies were collected at the W McCartney Rd site. Dashed lines mean no alates of that sex were present within the colony.