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Photo#85290
maroon/white mite

maroon/white mite
Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
September 28, 2006
Size: 2 mm sans chelicerae
I found this good-sized patterned mite indoors walking on a plywood subfloor that had recently been stripped of carpet and padding. It appears to be the same species as this one photographed by Tom Murray.

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maroon/white mite maroon/white mite

Moved
Moved from Velvet Mites.

Erythraeidae
ID by trombidiid mite specialist Dr. Joanna Makol, Agricultural University, Wroclaw, Poland.

Moved
Moved from Acariformes.

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