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Superfamily Hydrachnoidea

water mite - Hydrachna Red Water Mite - Hydrachna Water mite - Hydrachna Bulbous items on Water Scorpion - Ranatra (I think) - Hydrachna red mites on belostomatid - Hydrachna water mite - Hydrachna Hydrachnidia (water mites)? - Hydrachna Hydrachna? - Hydrachna
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Subclass Acari (Mites and Ticks)
Superorder Acariformes
Order Trombidiformes
Suborder Prostigmata (Prostigs)
Infraorder Anystina
No Taxon (Parasitengona)
No Taxon (Trombidiina)
No Taxon (Hydrachnidia - Water Mites)
Superfamily Hydrachnoidea
Numbers
Contains one family, Hydrachnidae.
Remarks
Not to be confused with Hydracarina (the "water mites"), a group of about 80 families of parasitengone mites whose free-living stages are aquatic. - Barry O'Connor
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