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ACARINA (mites)

Sets of Photographs

These relate to individual finds ("biological records") of the organism.

Taxon Summary # images # photos # macrophotos Date Vice-county Country
Acarina Adult female 2 2 8 Jul 2011 Glam Wales
Acarina 2 2 25 Apr 1999 South Hampshire England
Acarina 1 1 25 May 1975 East Sussex England

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs
Superorder ACARIFORMES (acariform mites) 1        
Order ORIBATIDA (oribatid mites, moss mites or beetle mites)         3
Division (Zoo.) Actinochaeta (a division of mites) 41        
Superorder PROSTIGMATA (a superorder of mites) 41 80 155 34 20
Superorder PARASITIFORMES (parasitiform mites) 4        
Order IXODIDA (ticks) 2 2 16 7 7
Order MESOSTIGMATA (mesostigmate or gamasid mites) 2       3
Family PHYTOPTIDAE (a family of gall mites) 1        
Genus Trisetacus (a genus of gall mites) 1       1
Family TYROGLYPHIDAE (cheese mites)         1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Baker, E.W. & Wharton, G.W., 1952 An Introduction to Acarology
Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. & Sankey, J., 1961 Land Invertebrates, a guide to British worms, molluscs and arthropods, excluding insects

Halacarid mites

André, M., 1946 Halacariens Marins

Parasites

Avery, R.A., 1974 (parasites of selected hosts) Identification of Animal Parasites

Pest species

Evans, G.O. & Browning, E., 1955 Some British Mites of Economic Importance
Hirst, S., 1922 Mites injurious to domestic animals (with an appendix on the Acarine disease of hive bees)

Plant galls

British Galls: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/british_galls/join British Galls
Darlington, A., 1968 A Pocket Encyclopedia of Plant Galls in colour
Redfern, M. & Shirley, P., 2002 British Plant Galls - Identification of galls on plants and fungi
Redfern, M. & Shirley, P., 2011 British Plant Galls
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 20 general literature references to ACARINA (mites)

ACARINA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
ARACHNIDA
(mites, spiders, false scorpions, harvestmen etc.)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 421 feeding and other relationships of ACARINA (mites)

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