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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Walkingsticks (Phasmida) » Striped Walkingsticks (Pseudophasmatidae) » Anisomorpha » Southern Two-striped Walkingstick (Anisomorpha buprestoides)
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Anisomorpha buprestoides with Chiggers (Trombiculidae) - Anisomorpha buprestoides - female
Copyright © 2017 demodexmite

Anisomorpha buprestoides with Chiggers (Trombiculidae) - Anisomorpha buprestoides - Female
Ocala National Forest, Marion County, Florida, USA
December 6, 2013
Notice the little red/orange "bubbles" attached to the walking stick's side? Those are chiggers!!
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Contributed by demodexmite on 2 May, 2017 - 5:07pm

chiggers are only on vertebrates, as far as I know...
These are certainly mites of some sort, though. And this is the white form of A. buprestoides that is only found in Ocala!
… metrioptera, 6 May, 2017 - 9:49am login or register to post comments

 
mite
Hello, I appreciate the comments! I did identify the attached mites to family via microscopic exam, and they were indeed chiggers (Trombiculidae), and I confirmed this ID with an entomology professor.
… demodexmite, 15 May, 2017 - 11:45am login or register to post comments

 
Erythraeidae
These mites are larval Erythraeidae, likely Leptus. Members of this group are distantly related to chiggers and are not similar in morphology. However, their habits are similar in that larvae engorge on host fluids, then drop off to pupate, emerge as a nymph, then pupate again to finally emerge as an adult. Chiggers are generally not found on arthropod hosts.
… Ray Fisher, 11 October, 2022 - 10:18pm login or register to post comments

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