>VARROA JACOBSONI [renamed destructor]

Actually not renamed, but rather reclassified into two distinct species:
" In a new classification V. jacobsoni is here redefined as encompassing
nine haplotypes (mites with distinct mtDNA CO-I gene sequences) that
infestA. cerana in the Malaysia–Indonesia region. Included is a Java
haplotype, specimens of which were used to first describe V. jacobsoni at
the beginning of this century. A new name, V. destructor n. sp., is given
to six haplotypes that infest A. cerana on mainland Asia."  D.L. Anderson
(2000) Varroa jacobsoni (Acari: Varroidae) is more than one species.



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Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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