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Superorder | 62 subtaxa | 328 images | 59 ident. refs | ||||
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Cohort | 2 subtaxa | 1 images | 1 ident. refs | ||||
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Superorder | 18 subtaxa | 50 images | 35 ident. refs | ||||
| Family | 1 subtaxa | 2 images | ||||||
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Genus | 1 subtaxa | 2 images | |||||
| Family | 1 ident. refs | |||||||
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Unidentified | 2 images | ||||||
| Subclass | ACARI (mites) |
| Class | ARACHNIDA (mites, spiders, false scorpions, harvestmen etc.) |
| Subphylum | CHELICERATA (a subphylum of arthropods) |
| Phylum | ARTHROPODA (arthropods) |
| Superphylum | ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders) |
| Clade | Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals) |
| Subkingdom | EUMETAZOA (metazoans) |
| Kingdom | ANIMALIA (animals) |
| Domain | Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
| Life | BIOTA (living things) |
| Author | Year | Title | Source | |
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| Anon. | Acarology - the study of mites and ticks | www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/acarology/ | ||
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Baker, E.W. & Wharton, G.W. | 1952 | An Introduction to Acarology | 465pp, Macmillan |
| Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. & Sankey, J. | 1961 | *** Land Invertebrates, a guide to British worms, molluscs and arthropods, excluding insects ***(Superseded) | 156pp, Methuen & Co. Ltd. | |
| Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. | 2009 | The Manual of Acarology | Third edition edition, 807pp, Texas Tech University Press | |
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Shepherd, M. & Crotty, F. | 2018 | A Key to the Soil Mites of Britain and Ireland (V7b) | |
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Shepherd, M. & Crotty, F. | 2015 | *** A Key to the Soil Mites of Britain and Ireland (V4b) ***(Superseded) | |
Parasites | ||||
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Avery, R.A. | 1974 | Identification of Animal Parasites | Hulton Group Keys, 182pp, Hulton Educational Publications Ltd. |
Pest Species | ||||
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Evans, G.O. & Browning, E. | 1955 | Some British Mites of Economic Importance | Economic Series, No 17, 46pp, British Museum (Natural History) |
| Hirst, S. | 1922 | *** Mites injurious to domestic animals (with an appendix on the Acarine disease of hive bees) ***(Superseded) | Economic Series, 13, 107pp, British Museum (Natural History) | |
Plant Galls | ||||
| Anon. | British Galls | |||
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Darlington, A. | 1968 | A Pocket Encyclopedia of Plant Galls in colour | Blandford Press |
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Redfern, M. & Shirley, P. | 2011 | British Plant Galls | AIDGAP Keys, Second edition, 432pp, Field Studies Council |
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Redfern, M. & Shirley, P. | 2002 | *** British Plant Galls - Identification of galls on plants and fungi ***(Superseded) | AIDGAP Keys, 325pp, Field Studies Council |
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Stubbs, F.B. (Editor) | 1986 | Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls | 95pp, British Plant Gall Society (BPGS) |
ACARI (mites) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:
 NBN (data.nbn.org.uk)
has a distribution map for ACARI (mites)
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 BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk)
has 641 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for ACARI (mites)
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