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Trachytidae
Sign in to saveTrachytidae is a family of mites in the order Mesostigmata.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderMesostigmata
- FamilyTrachytidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 26
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Trachytidae
- Collections
- CU, UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY GENOMICS, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ACAROLOGY LABORATORY, COLUMBUS, OH (OSAL), UCONN, SAMA, UWM
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada, Panama, Italy, Guyana
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Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- Genera
- References
Trachytidae is a family of mites in the order Mesostigmata.
==Genera== In 1960, Daniel G. Maiello, PhD in entomology, was doing research about mites Laelaps multispinosus. He discovered a related unnamed family, similar to the family Trachytidae. Polyaspinus Berlese, 1916 Trachytes Michael, 1894 Uroseius Berlese, 1888
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