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Mites and Ticks

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Parasites and Western Man

Abstract

Mites and ticks belong to the Order Acarina which is one of the seven Orders of the Class Arachnida, one of the largest Classes of the Phylum Arthropoda. Unlike insects, in which the head, thorax and abdomen are easily recognized, in the Acarina signs of segmentation are lost and the cephalothorax—formed by fusion of the head and thorax—is fixed with the abdomen. The anterior segment of the body carries the mouthparts, forming a false head known as the gnathosoma in mites or the capitulum in ticks. The mouthparts consist of palps which are sensory organs, often leglike, and the chelicerae which vary in appearance depending on whether they are used by the species for tearing or piercing. The epistome and hypostome (upper and lower lip) are particularly conspicuous in ticks.

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Church, R.E. (1979). Mites and Ticks. In: Donaldson, R.J. (eds) Parasites and Western Man. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6194-7_3

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