Parasitic mites have thus far been recorded only rarely from vespine wasps. We found larvae of the erythraeid mite Charletonia southcotti feeding on hornets, mainly Vespa analis workers that had been collected with bait traps. The mite seemed to prefer hornets stylopized by Xenos spp. as hosts to non-stylopized individuals, since in collections made over 7 years, 22 of 267 V. analis stylopized workers had larval mites, whereas there were none on 297 non-stylopized workers. The number of mites on a single host varied from one to five. The larval mites nearly always occurred in gapped spaces between tergites occupied by male Xenos puparia, and the mites’ engorged bodies showed that they did in fact feed on the hosts. We investigated the possibility that stylopization provided the mite with a suitable feeding place by opening gaps between the hornets’ tergites.

迄今为止，很少从胡蜂中记录到寄生螨。我们发现了以大黄蜂为食的 erythraeid 螨Charletonia southcotti 的幼虫，主要是用诱饵陷阱收集的Vespa analis工人。螨虫似乎更喜欢由Xenos spp 设计的大黄蜂。作为非风格化个人的宿主，因为在 7 年多的收藏中，267 V 中的22  。analis程式化的工人有幼虫螨，而 297 非程式化的工人则没有。单个宿主上的螨虫数量从 1 到 5 不等。该幼螨几乎总是发生在tergites之间的跳空空间占据由男性的Xenos蛹和螨虫充血的身体表明它们确实以宿主为食。我们研究了花柱化通过打开大黄蜂白蚁之间的缝隙为螨提供了合适的觅食场所的可能性。