Subclass

Acari (Mites and ticks)

Aceria cephalonea. Photo: (c) Matthieu Gauvain, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

Acari (or Acarina) are a taxon of arachnids that contains mites and ticks. The diversity of the Acari is extraordinary and its fossil history goes back to at least the early Devonian period. As a result, acarologists (the people who study mites and ticks) have proposed a complex set of taxonomic ranks to classify mites. In most modern treatments, the Acari is considered a subclass of Arachnida and is composed of two or three superorders or…

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