Small Marbled Scorpion
Marginal Eyes
Rake-legged Mite
Dorsal
| Small Marbled Scorpion Marginal Eyes | | Rake-legged Mite Dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida) | |||
| Order: | Mites (Trombidiformes) | ||||
| Family: | Snout Mite (Bdellidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Red Snout Mite (Bdellidae sp ES01) | ||||
| This Photo: | Dorsal | ||||
| Other name: | Tick | ||||
General Species Information: Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere We asked Gerrut Norval, a local researcher, what the difference between a mite & a tick was. He said, with our thanks, "Ticks and mite belong to the same subclass, Acari, so they are related. Mites are a very diverse group of organisms with numerous families. Ticks fall into one of three families, the hard ticks (Ixodidae), the soft ticks (Argasidae), and Nuttalliellidae, which currently contains one species restricted to southern Africa. Hard ticks are the ones most people are familiar with. Soft ticks basically look like large mites and can be distinguished from hard ticks by the absence of a scutum." | |||||
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