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Tetranychidae
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family of arthropods
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderTrombidiformes
- FamilyTetranychidae
叶螨科（學名：Tetranychidae）是蛛形綱蜱蟎亞綱真螨目之下的一個科。葉蟎科有些物種為害果樹，被泛稱為果螨，俗称红蜘蛛或黄蜘蛛等，皆為植食性動物，身長從200到900微米不等，生活於植物的葉底，紡出具保護作用的絲，也會刺穿植物的細胞來進食。由於這個會「紡絲」的特性，葉蟎科在英語也被叫作「蛛蟎」。受葉蟎科物種「青睞」的植物有數百個物種。 葉蟎科所屬的葉蟎總科是前氣門亞目Eleutherengonides下目Raphignathina小目之下五個總科之一。本科的物種有95個屬、約1200個物種（準確來說，有1288個物種）。由於物種眾多，一般會再細分為兩大亞科（苔蟎亞科跟葉蟎亞科）和多個族。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,146
- With media
- 1,092
- Family
- Tetranychidae
- Collections
- FC-UNAM, USNM, NMMNHS, INHS, LACM, UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY GENOMICS
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, Canada
Research
1,893 papers- Spider mite (Acari: Tetranychidae) mitochondrial COI phylogeny reviewed: host plant relationships, phylogeography, reproductive parasites and barcoding.Experimental & applied acarology · 2007
- Tetranychus ludeni (Acari: Tetranychidae) infestation triggers a spatiotemporal redox response dependent on soybean genotypes.Planta · 2024
- Reproduction in the spider mite Oligonychus yothersi (Acari: Tetranychidae).Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias · 2024
- Are predatory mites effective as biological control agents to suppress Oligonychus ilicis (Acari: Tetranychidae) in blueberry plantings?Journal of economic entomology · 2024
- Cold tolerance of Panonychus citri (McGregor) (Acari: Tetranychidae).Experimental & applied acarology · 2025
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Encyclopedic overview
Spider mites are members of the family Tetranychidae, which includes about 1,200 species. They are part of the subclass Acari (mites). Spider mites generally live on the undersides of leaves of plants, where they may spin protective silk webs, and can cause damage by puncturing the plant cells to feed. Spider mites are known to feed on several hundred species of plants.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tetranychidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.