Link to my complete #blogarticle about #Opuntioideae, aspects of its phylogeny with focus on #Maihueniopsis-like species, which branch off more basically in the tree of Opuntioideae. It's also about the #phoretic decomposer mites #Bonomoia #opuntiae and B. sp. on two Opuntia species and the parasite #Dactylopius Zimmermannii (#Coccoidea) on Maihueniopsis.

©#StefanFWirth Berlin 2024

Full blog article:

https://twitter.com/wirthstef/status/1751020140898971776?t=g1V3iHe4mW_ahQLWzdPr4g&s=19

Photo: B. opuntiae feeding, #SEM © StefanFWirth

About phylogeny of and #arthropods on #Opuntioideae with focus on a #parasite (#insect) and a #decomposer (#mite)
©#StefanFWirth Berlin 2024

Lucia Claps & María E. de Haro (2001)
M. Patrick Griffith & J. Mark Porter (2009) :
https://doi.org/10.1086/593048
S. F. Wirth (2005):
https://www1.montpellier.inrae.fr/CBGP/acarologia/article.php?id=1890

Photos:
1) SEM (mouth) of #Bonomoia #opuntiae
2) #Maihueniopsis glomerata, author Michael Wolf
3) M. clavarioides, by: Frank Vincentz 2007, 2)+3) under the Cr. Com. Attr. -Share Alike 3.0 Unp. license