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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari) » Acariformes » Trombidiformes » Prostigs (Prostigmata) » Anystina » Parasitengona » Erythraeina » Long-Legged Velvet Mites (Erythraeoidea) » Unidentified Larvae on Host
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Mites on Melanolophia canadaria
Copyright © 2017 Ken Childs

Mites on Melanolophia canadaria
Beech Bluff, Madison County, Tennessee, USA
June 14, 2017
I hope I'm posting this on the right page. I have lots of photos of parasitic mites on various insects. Please let me know where they should go.
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Contributed by Ken Childs on 14 June, 2017 - 2:39pm
Last updated 7 October, 2017 - 10:35am

Moved
Moved from Parasitengona - velvet mites (including chiggers) & water mites.
… Ray Fisher, 7 October, 2017 - 10:35am login or register to post comments

Parasitengona is correct; maybe erythraeids
They look like Erythraeidae, but I'll let Ray Fisher make that call.
… Heather Proctor, 17 June, 2017 - 12:34pm login or register to post comments

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