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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari)

Subclass Acari - Mites and Ticks

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari) » Parasitiformes » Mesostigs (Mesostigmata) » Dermanyssina » Dermanyssoidea » Varroidae » Varroa

Host specificity in the honeybee parasitic mite, Varroa spp. in Apis mellifera and Apis cerana

By A.L. Beaurepaire, T.A. Truong, A.C. Fajardo, T.Q. Dinh, C. Cervancia, and R.F.A. Moritz
PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0135103, 2015

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 10 September, 2017 - 10:41am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari) » Parasitiformes » Mesostigs (Mesostigmata) » Dermanyssina » Eviphidoidea » Parholaspididae

Review of the mite family Parholaspididae Evans, 1956 (Acari: Mesostigmata)

By Edwin Javier Quintero-Gutiérrez and Bruce Halliday
Zootaxa, 2021

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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 30 December, 2022 - 2:57pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari) » Acariformes » Trombidiformes » Prostigs (Prostigmata) » Eupodina » Eupodoidea

A new genus and species in the mite family Eupodidae (Acari, Eupodoidea) from Crimea

By Alexander A. Khaustov
ZooKeys 422: 11–22, 2014

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Includes key to world genera of Eupodidae and what is now Cocceupodidae

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 8 December, 2021 - 3:59pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari) » Parasitiformes » Ticks (Ixodida) » Hard Ticks (Ixodidae) » Amblyomma » Amblyomma triste

Amblyomma triste (Acari: Ixodidae): new North American collection records, including the first from the United States

By Mertins J.W., Moorhouse A.S., Alfred J.T., Hutcheson H.J.
J. Med. Entomol. 47: 536-542, 2010

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Contributed by v belov on 4 August, 2017 - 3:15pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari) » Parasitiformes » Mesostigs (Mesostigmata) » Dermanyssina » Ascoidea » Ameroseiidae

A revision of the family Ameroseiidae (Acari, Mesostigmata), with some data on Slovak fauna

By Peter Mašán
ZooKeys 704: 1-228, 2017

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Contributed by Iustin Cret on 30 September, 2017 - 12:05am

On the classification of the family Macrochelidae with particular reference to the subfamily Parholaspinae(Acarina:Mesostigmata)

By G. Owen Evans
Journal of Zoology 127(3):345-377, 2009

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 9 June, 2020 - 5:31pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari) » Parasitiformes » Mesostigs (Mesostigmata) » Parasitina » Parasitoidea » Parasitidae

Sexual dimorphism in deutonymphs of mites of the family Parasitidae (Acari: Mesostigmata)

By Dana L. Wrensch and Donald E. Johnston
Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Vol. 76, No. 3: 473-474, 1983

I post an image of a Parasitid deutonymph sternum which shows the subject "small, clear area surrounded by a raylike pattern in the posterior part of the sternal shield", identifying it as female, and a corresponding image of a male, showing that it lacks this feature.

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 23 January, 2016 - 9:16pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari) » Parasitiformes » Opilioacarida » Opilioacaroidea » Opilioacaridae

The fine structure of the lateral eyes of Neocarus texanus

By T. Kaiser and G. Alberti
Protoplasma, Vol. 163, pp. 19-33, 1991

T. Kaiser and G. Alberti, The fine structure of the lateral eyes of Neocarus texanus Chamberlin and Mulaik, 1942 (Opilioacarida, Acari, Arachnida, Chelicerata), Protoplasma, 163: 19-33, 1991

This article included detailed images of a representative of Opilioacarida.

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 22 November, 2012 - 9:36am

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