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

(1) Colony number corresponds to those listed in Table 2.