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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari) » Parasitiformes » Mesostigs (Mesostigmata) » Epicriina » Epicrioidea » Epicriidae
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Epicriidae
Copyright © 2014 Pierre-Marc Brousseau

Epicriidae
Mont St-Hilaire, Montérégie County, Quebec, Canada
September 21, 2011
An Epicriidae found in extraction of forest litter. I first identified it as Berlesiana, but while I double check before to post the pictures, I noticed this genus is not reported in North America. I will have to check it more thoroughly...

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Epicriidae Epicriidae
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Contributed by Pierre-Marc Brousseau on 5 December, 2014 - 8:33pm
Last updated 5 December, 2014 - 10:35pm

maybe Antennoseius
Epicriids have a complete dorsal shield. With that divided dorsal shield, it might be Antennoseius (Ascidae). See http://itp.lucidcentral.org/id/mites/invasive_mite/Invasive_Mite_Identification/key/Mesostigmata/Media/Html/Antennoseius_Vitzthumia.htm

and

http://itp.lucidcentral.org/id/mites/invasive_mite/Invasive_Mite_Identification/key/Mesostigmata/Media/Images/AntDS.jpg

and

http://itp.lucidcentral.org/id/mites/invasive_mite/Invasive_Mite_Identification/key/Mesostigmata/Media/Html/Antennoseius.htm

(thanks to Dave Walter for this tentative i.d.)
… Heather Proctor, 6 December, 2014 - 6:50pm login or register to post comments

 
You may be right
I've tried to look at the genital plate to confirm, but I unadvertently destroyed the specimen (I completly mash it between the objectif and the slide). Hehe, Murphy's law once more time. Anyway, they are relatively common in my samples, I'll found another one later.
… Pierre-Marc Brousseau, 12 December, 2014 - 11:51am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Epicrioidea.
… Maury J. Heiman, 5 December, 2014 - 10:35pm login or register to post comments

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