![]() | Red Snout Mite Dorsal | Red-legged Earth Mite 6-8 on Capeweed | ![]() | |||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida) | ||||
Order: | Mites (Trombidiformes) | ||||
Family: | Snout Mite (Bdellidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Rake-legged Mite (Caeculidae sp) | ||||
This Photo: | Dorsal | ||||
Thank you Owen Seeman for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 2nd Record in SA on Atlas: ~1mm long We thought it might be Microcaeculus sp. Owen said "Probably best left at the family level. The family is poorly worked on in Australia despite their abundance, and the genera Neocaeculus and Microcaeculus are difficult to impossible to distinguish." | |||||
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