Alois KOFLER & Karl SCHMĂ–LZER (2000) Zur Kenntnis phoretischer Milben und ihrer Tragwirte in Ă–sterreich. Ber. nat.-med. Verein Innsbruck. 87: 133-157.
http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/BERI_87_0133-0157.pdf
Und hier noch etwas aus den U.S.A.:
K. U. Campbell, H. Klompen, T. O. Crist. (2013) The diversity and host specificity of mites associated with ants: the roles of ecological and life history traits of ant hosts. Insect. Soc. 60:31–41
http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00040-012-0262-6.pdf
Seite 35: "As noted by several other records, Oplitis (Uropodina) are almost exclusively found attached to the tibial spurs of the hosts’ legs (Fig. 1b) (Donisthorpe, 1927; Hunter and Farrier, 1975, 1976; Lehtinen, 1987)."
Figur 1 zeigt u.A. eine L. alienus mit Oplitis Milben an beiden Hinterbeinen.
Fig. 1, source: http://link.springer.com/static-content/images/758/art%253A10.1007%252Fs00040-012-0262-6/MediaObjects/40_2012_262_Fig1_HTML.jpg
Donisthorpe H.S.J.K. 1927. The Guests of British Ants their Habits and Life-Histories. George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., London.
Hunter J.E.III and Farrier M.H. 1975. Mites in the genus Oplitis (Acarina: Uropodidae) associated with ants (
Hunter J.E.III and Farrier M.H. 1976. Mites in the genus Oplitis (Acarina: Uropodidae) associated with ants (
Lehtinen P.T. 1987. Association of uropodid, prodinychid, polyaspidid, antennophorid, sejid, microgynid, and zerconid mites with ants. Entomol. Tidskr. 108: 13-20.