TY  - JOUR
JF  - Acarologia
T1  - The first record of the parasitism of Pyemotes sp. (Acari: Pyemotidae) on Eurytoma schreineri Schreiner, 1908 (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) inside plum seeds
VL  - 65
IS  - 4
SP  - 1011
EP  - 1017
PY  - 2025
SN  - 0044-586X
SN  - 2107-7207
PB  - Les Amis d'Acarologia
AU  - Tonka, Tomáš
AU  - Pultar, Oldřich
AU  - Ouředníčková, Jana
UR  - https://doi.org/10.24349/al9k-nfql
DO  - 10.24349/al9k-nfql
DA  - 2025-10-03
ET  - 2025-10-03
KW  - plum seed wasp
KW  - 18S rRNA
KW  - sequencing
KW  - parasitism
KW  - biological control
AB  - Specimens of the plum seed wasp, Eurytoma schreineri Schreiner, 1908 (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae), collected in the Czech Republic were found to be parasitized by an unidentified species of Pyemotes Amerling, 1861 (Acari: Pyemotidae) very close to or identical to P. herfsi.  Out of 526 collected wasps, 24.14% were parasitized, primarily as larvae (21.48%). Infected larvae and pupae of the plum seed wasp were covered by spherical, physogastric females of the genus Pyemotes. Genus identification was based on sequence similarity analysis of the nuclear 18S rDNA region, amplified from DNA isolated from the mites. This is the first record of pyemotid  mite parasitisim on the plum seed wasp, E. schreineri, and the first report of natural infection of an insect by these mites in the Czech Republic.
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