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Blattisociidae

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Blattisociidae is a family of mites in the order Mesostigmata.

Species

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderMesostigmata
  5. FamilyBlattisociidae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
110
Family
Blattisociidae
Collections
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY GENOMICS
Recorded in
Canada

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Blattisociidae is a family of mites in the order Mesostigmata.

== Description == Blattisociidae are mites with the following features: dorsal shield entire or laterally incised and with 18-43 pairs of setae; female with usually more than four pairs of marginal setae on soft cuticle; palptarsal apotele two-tined; fixed cheliceral digit with setiform pilus dentilis; peritreme usually extending from stigma at least to level of s2, and fused anteriorly with dorsal shield and broadly fused with exopodal shield beside coxa IV (except in Fungiseius clavulisetis); female spermathecal apparatus of the phytoseiid-type (except in Zercoseius); male spermatodactyl at least as long as movable cheliceral digit.

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