摘要：There are more phoretic species of Acarina associated with bumblebees. Kuzinia laevis (Dujardin, 1849) is most frequent among astigmatid mites. In this paper, new distributional records of deutonymph stage of K. laevis phoretic on two species of Bombus Latreille, 1802 (B. terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758) and B. lapidarius (Linnaeus, 1758)) are given. Two hundred forty seven deutonymphs were found on three new localities from Slovakia. Life cycle of this mite, along with some notes to its biology and ecology are presented in discussion.
关键词：Acari; Acaridae; Astigmata; bumblebees; Kuzinia laevis ; life cycle; phoresy.
