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Bdellidae
Sign in to saveBdellidae is a family of snout mites in the order Trombidiformes. There are about 11 genera and at least 260 described species in Bdellidae.
Species
snout mites
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderTrombidiformes
- FamilyBdellidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 602
- With media
- 34
- Family
- Bdellidae
- Collections
- UAM, UCMP, VPI, UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY GENOMICS, DMNS, LACM
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, Canada
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Bdelloidea
- Image
- Scirus pallidus 1876.jpg
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- family
- taxon name
- Bdellidae
- Commons category
- Bdellidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Bdellidae
- taxon common name
- Snout Mites
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Bdellidae is a family of snout mites in the order Trombidiformes. There are about 11 genera and at least 260 described species in Bdellidae.
In terms of size, they are medium to large-sized predatory mites. They are known to inhabit soil, leaves, as well as intertidal rocks. They can be easily recognized by their elongated, snout-like gnathosoma pedipalps bearing two (one in Monotrichobdella) long terminal setae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bdellidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.