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VMD

Veterinary Microbial Diseases

TIK

Tick Identification Key

 

Protozoa

Nematodes

Cestodes

Trematodes

Insects

  • Mosquitoes
    • Culex spp.
    • Anopheles spp.
  • Sandflies
    • Plebotomus
  • Blackflies
  • Midges
    • Culicoides
  • Horseflies
    • Chrysops
    • Haematopota
    • Tabanus
  • Keds
    • Hippobosca equinum (forest fly)
    • Lipoptena cervi (deer ked)
    • Melophagus ovinus (sheep ked)
  • Fleas
    • Dog
    • Hamster
    • Fowl
    • Hedgehog
    • other
  • Lice
    • human
    • pig
    • pheasant
    • roedeer
  • Bugs
    • Cimex
    • Triatome

Mites and Ticks

 

Artefacts and Pseudo parasites

 

 

  
PARASITE IMAGE COLLECTION

Mites infesting a common housefly to hitch a ride

House fly (Musca domestica), phoretic mite infestation

 

Excerpt on phoresy from Rodrigueiro and Prado, (2004)
Phoresy is a phenomenon in which an animal (the phoretic stage or phoront) actively seeks and attaches to the surface of another animal and then enters quiescence (no ontogenesis or feeding) in order to be transported to other habitats. After migration, if the conditions are suitable, the phoretics leave the host to colonize a new habitat. This dispersal is vital for species that live in fragmented areas separated by distances that are unsurpassable to them.
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House fly with mite infestation, mites attached to thorax and abdomen
housefly miteMites (Macrocheles spp.) on House fly, attached to thorax and abdomen. (Note the presence of a much smaller mite, possible a poultry mite)
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Mite (Macrocheles spp.) isolated from House fly, ventral aspect

 

 

 

 

 

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Frank L. Ruedisueli

Nottingham Trent University

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