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Subclass Acari - Mites and Ticks

Beetle with too many mites - Poecilochirus

Tick of some kind - Ixodes scapularis - female

tiny, tiny, tiny, red mite - Eustigmaeus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Subclass Acari (Mites and Ticks)

Explanation of Names

From Greek akari, name for a kind of mite

Remarks

This section has been reorganized per the Acari Project. Some division levels have changed (superorder to subclass, etc.) and some taxa have been dissolved, split up, renamed or otherwise rearranged.

Mite specialists are being sought to further identify many of the images posted here.

Internet References

http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/acari/0ReportHi.htm

http://www.cvm.okstate.edu/instruction/kocan/vpar5333/533ot3aa.htm

http://whalonlab.msu.edu/mites/Mite_Website/Mites.htm

http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Parasitengona&contgroup=Trombidiformes

http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/acari/index.html

comprehensive overview of mite and tick species in eastern Canada, using older classification (Ian Smith et al, naturewatch.ca)

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 28 December, 2006 - 5:04pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod
Last updated 7 January, 2007 - 10:42am

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