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Definition of Acarina

Acarina
Arachnida A*rach"ni*da, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? spider.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the classes of Arthropoda. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: They have four pairs of legs, no antenn[ae] nor wings, a pair of mandibles, and one pair of maxill[ae] or palpi. The head is usually consolidated with the thorax. The respiration is either by tranche[ae] or by pulmonary sacs, or by both. The class includes three principal orders: Araneina, or spiders; Arthrogastra, including scorpions, etc.; and Acarina, or mites and ticks.
Acarina
Acarina Ac`a*ri"na, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ? a mite.] (Zo["o]l.) The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.

Meaning of Acarina from wikipedia

- Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods). Mites span two large orders of arachnids, the Acariformes and the Parasitiformes, which were historically...
- endemic. Vietnam's fauna includes 307 nematode species, 200 oligochaeta, 145 acarina, 113 springtails, 7,750 insects, 260 reptiles, and 120 amphibians. There...
- sculptures carved within the peristyle that are believed to be depictions of Acarina which would make them the first recognizable representations of mites in...
- -λογία, -logia) is the study of mites and ticks, the animals in the order Acarina. It is a subfield of arachnology, a subdiscipline of the field of zoology...
- infestation caused by an ectoparasitic and skin burrowing mite Notoedres cati (Acarina, Sarcoptidae). N. cati is primarily a parasite of felids, but it can also...
- bears. Since mites belong to the arachnid subclass Acari (also called Acarina), another term for mite infestation is acariasis. Parasitic mites that...
- [2] Acarina Acarina / Mesostigmata - yes Acarina / Ixodides - 22 Acarina / Prostigmata - 10 Acarina / Eriophyoidea - yes Acarina (water) - 432 Acarina /...
- species of Argasidae (Acarina: Ixodoidea). Pub Hlth Rep 55:925-933. Cooley RA, Kohls GM. 1940. Two new species of Argasidae (Acarina: Ixodoidea). Pub Hlth...
- Halliday, R. B.; Lindquist, E. E. (1993). "A review of the genus Asca (Acarina: Ascidae) in Australia, with descriptions of three new leaf-inhabiting...
- ISBN 978-0-8493-4489-3. Allan SA (2001). "Ticks (class Arachnida: Order Acarina)". In Samuel WM, Pybus MJ, Kocan AA (eds.). Parasitic Diseases of Wild...