Tropilaelaps mercedesae Anderson & Morgan, 2007

Tropilaelaps mercedesae Anderson & Morgan, 2007: 21 .

Tropilaelaps clareae .— Stephen, 1968: 119; Bharadwaj, 1968: 115; Atwal & Goyal, 1971: 137; Prasad, 1974: 153; Bhasker & Putatunda, 1989: 288; Abrol, 1996: 16; Abrol & Putatunda, 1996: 59; Abrol & Kakroo, 1997: 151; Sharma, 2002: 55; Putatunda & Abrol, 2003: 1022; Baker et al., 2005: 17; Warrit & Lekprayoon, 2011: 354; Kotwal et al., 2013; Thakur et al., 2021: 115.

Tropilaelaps mercedesae .—Painka, 2020: 151; Haran et al., 2021: 219; Moraes et al., 2022: 394.

Collection records in India: India, on Apis mellifera (Stephen, 1968); New Delhi, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, in Apis dorsata colony ( Hymenoptera: Apidae) (Bharadwaj, 1968); Ludhiana, in Apis mellifera hives (Atwal & Goyal, 1971); Haryana, on Apis dorsata, A. mellifera and A. florea ( Hymenoptera: Apidae) (Bhasker & Putatunda, 1989); Bangalore, on Xylocopa irridipennis (Abrol & Putatunda, 1996); Jammu, on Apis dorsata, Apis mellifera and Apis cerana ( Hymenoptera: Apidae) (Abrol & Kakroo, 1997); Himachal Pradesh, multiple sites, hives of Apis mellifera (Sharma, 2002); Bangalore, in a colony of Apis dorsata ( Hymenoptera: Apidae) (Anderson & Morgan, 2007); Jammu and Kashmir, in Apis mellifera hives (Kotwal et al., 2013); India, on Apis dorsata and Apis mellifera (Painka, 2020); Tamil Nadu, Pollachi, Coimbatore district (Haran et al. 2021); Solan, Himchal Pradesh (Thakur et al., 2021).

Notes: Anderson & Morgan (2007) showed that Tropilaelaps clareae does not occur in India. All Indian records of T. clareae are here treated as misidentifications of T. mercedesae .