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The arachnids comprise a class of arthropods that includes the ticks, mites, scorpions, and spiders. The characteristics of the Arachnida clearly differentiate it from the Class Insecta. All arachnids are wingless, have four pairs of legs as adults, and usually show only two distinct body regions, a cephalothorax and an abdomen. Metamorphosis among the arachnids is of the incomplete type (Fig. 39.1). The immature nonreproductive stages are smaller but morphologically similar to those of the adults. In many groups, arachnids in the first, or larval, stage may have only three pairs of legs.

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  1. College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, 10032, USA

    Dickson D. Despommier Ph.D. (Professor of Public Health (Parasitology) and Microbiology)

  2. Laboratory of Malaria Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA

    Robert W. Gwadz Ph.D. (Captain, US Public Health Service, Assistant Chief)

  3. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA

    Peter J. Hotez M.D., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases), Epidemiology, and Public Health)

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Despommier, D.D., Gwadz, R.W., Hotez, P.J. (1995). Arachnids. In: Parasitic Diseases. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2476-1_39

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