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Acari

Acari

Feather mites

GBIF:165418173

ABOUT

Descriptions(1)

Feather mites are the members of diverse mite superfamilies:

superorder Acariformes Psoroptidia Analgoidea Freyanoidea Pterolichoidea superorder Parasitiformes Dermanyssoidea

They are ectoparasites on birds, hence the common name.
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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. 1 preferred.

engFeather miteseng

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide. 1 name preferred.

engFeather mites
engpreferred

CLASSIFICATION

Taxonomic Classification Tree

MULTIMEDIA

Media Files(1)

Dermanyssus gallinae(Dermanyssoidea: Dermanyssidae)

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IMAGES

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Occurrences with images

Source Information

English Wikipedia - Species Pages

checklist
Species pages extracted from the English Wikipedia article XML dump from 2022-08-02. Multimedia, vernacular names and textual descriptions are extracted, but only pages with a taxobox or speciesbox template are recognized. See https://github.com/mdoering/wikipedia-dwca for details.

Döring M (2022). English Wikipedia - Species Pages. Wikimedia Foundation. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/c3kkgh accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-14.

LicensePublished 8/2/2022View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
165418173
Dataset Key
cbb6498e-8927-405a-916b-576d00a6289b
Origin
source
Taxon ID
12037267
Last Crawled
6/4/2026
Last Interpreted
6/4/2026