Trevor Weatherhead wrote

From my understanding of the situation, the Java
> strain, which is the original Varroa jacobsoni,
> does not reproduce on Apis mellifera and has to
> have its host, Apis cerana, to survive.  I would
> think that what is present on St. Kitts and Nevis
> is Varroa destructor if it is reproducing on Apis mellifera.

Dear college,
What is sure is that, I collected the mite from the
Apis mellifera colonies in Nevis myself. I did not
study its reproduction or have data on its DNA
analysis only its morphological similarity was the
basement of the judgement as is normal in this
situation. In Apidologie 31 (2000) 281-292 written by
Anderson "Variation in the parasitic bee mite Varroa
jacobsoni Oud." Figure 2, is dealing with the
appearance of a representative mite from Java and
Korea haplotype. A SEM micrograph of Nevisian Varroa
shown in a figure in American Bee Journal November
issue is also exist. Please compare an see to which
category the mite belong. If it belong to Java
haplotype then the figure 2 of Anderson work is no
longer valid, and recognition is not possible with
the appearance. Best regards Kamran Fakhimzadeh