Identifying of Mites associate with nest of Bombus armeniacus (Hymenoptera, Apidae) coloney in Ardabil province

Searching of nest entrance of bumblebees, in an area of living and flying place Shahbil region at strictof Sabalan mountains around of Meshkinshahr (Ardabil province) carried out and after finding theentrance resulting of one worker enter in the a hole in the ground, the place of nest dogged out by depthof 80 cm. When the nest appeared, whole of coloney with background materials transferred to a plasticcontainer which was prepared for colony transporting. During transporting to laboratory, bees fed byhoney solution (50% water and honey) and pollen gathered from honey bees‟ colonies. Bumblebees weredetected by one of authors (A. M) as Bombus armeniacus.Mites preparation made as usuall and send forPavel Klimov in USA for identifying. Based on his identifications, 6 species detected as fallow;Parasitelus fucorum ،Kuzinia laevis ،Proctolaelaps longisetosus ،Pneumolaelaps colomboi ،Pneumolaelaps hyatti, Pneumolaelaps undtet.Specimens collected from Parasitelus fucorum were all indeutonymph stage. This Frequencies of this species was 16%. The most frequent species wasPneumolaelaps hyatti which were 40% of all collected specimens.

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Bombus armeniacus L. Ardabil ، Associate Mites ، Iran