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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari) » Parasitiformes » Mesostigs (Mesostigmata) » Parasitina » Parasitoidea » Parasitidae » images ID'd by D.E. Walter as Parasitidae
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mite on Meloe blister beetle
Copyright © 2005 Jim McClarin

mite on Meloe blister beetle
Windham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
September 14, 2005
This is the only mite I saw on 10 Meloe beetles found at this site.

I've noticed that mites that become separated from a captive carrion beetle or dung beetle will often climb onto beetles of other families, even though their food source is of no interest to the mite. Perhaps this rider just climbed aboard the first beetle that passed his way. On the other hand, it could be a mite species that specializes in Meloe. Any ideas?

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 16 September, 2005 - 4:21am
Last updated 10 May, 2011 - 2:42pm

probably Parasitidae, deutonymph --det. D.E. Walter
"...but unusual host"

Moved from Mesostigmata.
… v belov, 10 May, 2011 - 2:42pm login or register to post comments

Moved
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… Jim McClarin, 7 February, 2007 - 7:43pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Mites.
… Jim McClarin, 30 December, 2006 - 10:54am login or register to post comments

Another mite
I found another mite a week or so later on a Meloe from the same site. The Meloe was dead and the mite left the beetle soon after I saw it.
… Jim McClarin, 30 September, 2005 - 5:54pm login or register to post comments

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