First record of four bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) associated mite species (Acari) from Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Abstract

Four mite species (Acari: Scutacaridae: Scutacarus acarorum (Goeze, 1780), Chaetodactylidae: Sennertia alfkeni (Oudemans, 1900); Ascidae: Proctolaelaps longanalis (Westerboer, 1963), Laelapidae: Hypoaspis (Pneumolaelaps) marginepilosa (Sellnick, 1938) are found on the body of bees deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. The host bee species were collect in Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; the found four species are collected at first time in Democratic People’s Republic of Korea