PROSTIGMATA
(sucking mites)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
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Supercohort 4 subtaxa 22 images 4 ident. refs
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Supercohort 5 subtaxa 28 images 6 ident. refs
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Supercohort 48 subtaxa 261 images 28 ident. refs
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Order 1 subtaxa 12 images 5 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SuborderPROSTIGMATA (sucking mites)
OrderTROMBIDIFORMES (trombidiform mites)
SuperorderACARIFORMES (acariform mites)
SubclassACARI (mites)
ClassARACHNIDA (mites, spiders, false scorpions, harvestmen etc.)
SubphylumCHELICERATA (a subphylum of arthropods)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Vacanti, V. 2015 Handbook of Mites of Economic Plants 890pp, CABI

Bee Mites

Klimov, P.B., O’Connor, B., Ochoa, R., Bauchan, G., Redford, A. & Scher, J. 2016 Bee Mite ID: Bee-Associated Mite Genera of the World idtools.org/id/mites/beemites

PROSTIGMATA (sucking mites) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PROSTIGMATA (sucking mites)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 326 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for PROSTIGMATA (sucking mites)
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