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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari) » Acariformes » Trombidiformes » Prostigs (Prostigmata) » Anystina » Parasitengona » Erythraeina » Long-Legged Velvet Mites (Erythraeoidea) » Erythraeidae
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Can it be Subclass Entognatha, Order Protura?
Copyright © 2008 Serguei Ponomarenko

Can it be Subclass Entognatha, Order Protura?
near Kingston, Ontario, Canada
October 16, 2007
Size: 0.9x0.5 mm
This is a better quality picture of a creature I posted before. I hope someone could have an idea of what it is. This little creature I found while identifying sphagnum on a Sphagnum branch deep inside of the mass. It was collected on mineratrophic peatland - Larix laricina - Alnus incana /Sphagnum Woodland. On the left side one can see something like a leg and in front two antennas. Can it be Subclass Entognatha, Order Protura? Or may be immature stage of something else?

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Can it be Subclass Entognatha, Order Protura? Red Bug in Sphagnum
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Contributed by Serguei Ponomarenko on 18 April, 2008 - 8:56pm
Last updated 25 May, 2010 - 9:43pm

Moved
Moved from Parasitengona.
… Ken Schneider, 25 May, 2010 - 9:43pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Mites and Ticks.
… Ken Schneider, 15 August, 2009 - 9:57am login or register to post comments

Parasitengonae
This is the calyptostatic protonymph of a parasitengone mite... either a velvet mite or water mite. Parasitengone larvae are parasitic on other arthropods. After engorging, they molt into a calyptostatic (quiescent, "pupal") protonymph stage. The deutonymph is usually a free-roaming predator, and then there's another calyptostatic stage... the tritonymph. Finally, the adult is usually a free-ranging predator.

I am not experienced enough to ID this beyond Parasitengonae. Maybe in a few years I'll have more info! :)
… Ray Fisher, 14 August, 2009 - 11:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Erythraeidae
Erythraeidae
… Ray Fisher, 25 May, 2010 - 7:22pm login or register to post comments

My understanding that head is
My understanding that head is facing shadow. There are two long white structures that looks like antennas. I will get the specimen again and make an underside photo.
… Serguei Ponomarenko, 21 April, 2008 - 9:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Oh yes,
I see what you mean now....I was thinking those were legs.
… Lynette Elliott, 21 April, 2008 - 9:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Antennas and eyes
They attached right to the pointed end of the body. They could be legs as well. And, by the way, with some imagination one can see something like eyes between them.
… Serguei Ponomarenko, 22 April, 2008 - 8:40pm login or register to post comments

It is hard to say, a pic of t
It is hard to say, a pic of the underside would be helpful... it could also be a mite....
… Martin Hauser, 21 April, 2008 - 6:24pm login or register to post comments

Antennas?
I don't see any antennas. If this is a bug I would say that the head is facing the shadow, right?
… Lynette Elliott, 19 April, 2008 - 10:14am login or register to post comments

 
It seems so to me.
It seems so to me.
… Serguei Ponomarenko, 24 April, 2008 - 9:59pm login or register to post comments

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