8-legger - Penthaleus - BugGuide.Net

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… Ray Fisher, 20 January, 2014 - 5:16pm

Dave Walter says:

"Pretty hard to tell from such a shrivelled specimen. My best guess would be an earth mite (Penthaleidae) based on the long legs, colour, and sparse setation, and possibly a Blue Oat Mite or close relative (Penthaleus sp.). The dark colour of the body is consistent with an earth mite and the dorsal view looks like it has an anal opening in the middle of the opisthosoma like an oat mite (http://bugguide.net/node/view/315413/bgimage). Presumably this helps when oat mites are feeding upside-down on leaves (although Red-legged Earth Mites get by with the anus in a more normal position). The gnathosoma looks too robust, though, but that could be because the body is shrivelled. I'd stake your reputation on it being a Penthaleus sp., but not mine."

… Charley Eiseman, 11 February, 2012 - 5:56am

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Come on, this has to be some kind of mite, right? I know I've seen those knobby structures (behind the 2nd pair of legs) on a mite before, but can't remember where.

… Charley Eiseman, 10 February, 2012 - 9:55pm

Well...

...that was my original thought. Seems that not everyone is in full agreement, though. :)

… Ken Wolgemuth, 10 February, 2012 - 10:14pm

Damaeid?

With the patterned wax exudate and all those setae, it really looks to me like some kind of damaeid mite (Oribatida > Brachypylina > Damaeoidea > Damaeidae), but I'm certainly no expert.

… W. Randy Hoffman, 10 February, 2012 - 10:21pm

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… john and jane balaban, 5 February, 2012 - 1:01pm

Hi Tim

It sure looks like a mite to me. I don't know much about mites, but some of these ones look similar to me: Order Oribatida.

… Lynette Elliott, 5 February, 2012 - 11:26am

No luck

I went through these a bit, but no luck
http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~srivast/mites/group.html

I this close, or just wishful thinking?
http://www.cbif.gc.ca/spp_pages/mites/jpgs/images_e.php?image%5B%5D=238b.jpg%3AGymnodamaeus+sp.+protonymph

… John R. Maxwell, 9 February, 2012 - 1:23pm

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… v belov, 5 July, 2011 - 10:53pm

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I figure it's got to go here... and that if it doesn't, the experts who hang out here will tell me soon enough. :)

… Ken Wolgemuth, 15 May, 2011 - 7:19pm