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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari) » Acariformes
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I think it's a mite, it is a mite: Acariformes
Copyright © 2017 MJ Hatfield

I think it's a mite, it is a mite: Acariformes
100 Acre Wood, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
October 4, 2017
Size: less than 1/2 mm
When cutting Foxtail for a couple of delphacid nymphs, found wax between a leaf blade and the stem of the grass. In the wax there was a (maybe) scale, dead, (maybe) eggs and this little guy which ran out of the area. Don't know if the wax on it is part of it or came off of the wax on the grass.
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 5 October, 2017 - 4:02pm
Last updated 30 December, 2018 - 8:42am

Moved
Moved from Mites and Ticks.
… John F. Carr, 29 December, 2018 - 3:22pm login or register to post comments

Sarcoptiformes
Mite is correct! It's most likely a member of the Astigmata, possibly Tyrophagus (Acaridae); however, it's also possible that it is a nymphal oribatid of the non-astigmatan kind. So the safest thing is to leave it at Sarcoptiformes unless Barry OConnor can i.d. it more finely.
… Heather Proctor, 7 October, 2017 - 10:57am login or register to post comments

 
It was cute.
I saved it in alcohol but it died and dried before I did.
Was the wax from being in proximity with the scale(s)?
And of course, thank you.
… MJ Hatfield, 7 October, 2017 - 12:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes, I think it was waxy beca
Yes, I think it was waxy because of the scales and not because of it's own exudations, but there are oribatid mites that make waxy exudates.
… Heather Proctor, 7 October, 2017 - 12:15pm login or register to post comments

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