Skip to content
EntityQ1936504· pop 9· linked from 18 articles

Dermanyssoidea

Sign in to save

Dermanyssoidea is a superfamily of mites, including most of the mites which parasitise vertebrates.

Species

Superfamily

  1. PhylumArthropoda
  2. ClassArachnida
  3. OrderMesostigmata
Habitatmarine

via

~3 min read

Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • Families
  • Description
  • Parasitism
  • Disease transmission
  • Phylogeny
  • References

Dermanyssoidea is a superfamily of mites, including most of the mites which parasitise vertebrates.

== Families == Dermanyssoidea contains 21 families: Dasyponyssidae Dermanyssidae Entonyssidae Haemogamasidae Halarachnidae Hirstionyssidae Hystrichonyssidae Ixodorhynchidae Laelapidae Larvamimidae Leptolaelapidae Macronyssidae Manitherionyssidae Omentolaelapidae Pneumophionyssidae Raillietiidae Rhinonyssidae Spelaeorhynchidae Spinturnicidae Trichoaspididae Uronyssidae Varroidae The familial composition is debated. For example, a 2010 analysis found Spelaeorhynchidae and Spinturnicidae to be more closely related to Eviphidoidea than to Dermanyssoidea.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dermanyssoidea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Available in 8 languages

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0