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Ophionyssus

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Ophionyssus is a genus of bird mites in the family Macronyssidae. There are about seven described species in Ophionyssus.

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It is catalogued under the topic Mesostigmata.

Vinony links it to 7 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

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

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Specimen records
30
With media
7
Family
Macronyssidae
Collections
INHS, NAUF, UWM, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ACAROLOGY LABORATORY, COLUMBUS, OH (OSAL), QM, TAMU
Recorded in
United States, Malaysia, Netherlands

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Macronyssidae
Image
Snake mite.jpg
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taxon name
Ophionyssus
taxon rank
genus
Commons category
Ophionyssus
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Encyclopedic overview

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Ophionyssus is a genus of bird mites in the family Macronyssidae. There are about seven described species in Ophionyssus.

==Species== These seven species belong to the genus Ophionyssus: Ophionyssus galeotes Domrow, Heath & Kennedy, 1980 Ophionyssus javanensis Mich. & Lukoschus Ophionyssus lacertinus (Berlese, 1892) Ophionyssus natricis (Gervais, 1844) Ophionyssus saurarum (Oudemans, 1901) Ophionyssus schreibericolus Ophionyssus scincorum Domrow, Heath & Kennedy, 1980

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