Dermanyssus is a genus of
mite
Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods). Mites span two large orders of arachnids, the Acariformes and the Parasitiformes, which were historically grouped together in the subclass Acari, but genetic analysis does not show clear evid ...
s in the family
Dermanyssidae
Dermanyssidae is a family of mites in the order Mesostigmata.
Genera
*''Acanthonyssus'' Yunker & Radovsky ''in'' Wenzel & Tipton 1966
**''Acanthonyssus dentipes'' (Strandtmann & Eads, 1947)
*'' Dermanyssus'' Dugès, 1834
**'' Dermanyssus ameri ...
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[ ] The
etymology
Etymology ()The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time". is the study of the history of the Phonological chan ...
of the word ''Dermanyssus'' is from the Greek: ''derma'', meaning skin, and ''nyssein'', meaning bite.
Genera
*''Dermanyssus''
**''
Dermanyssus americanus''
Ewing, 1923
**''
Dermanyssus antillarum''
Dusbabek & Cerny, 1971
**''
Dermanyssus apodis''
Roy, Dowling, Chauve & Buronfonsse, 2009
**''
Dermanyssus brevirivulus''
Gu & Ting, 1992
**''
Dermanyssus brevis''
Ewing, 1936
**''
Dermanyssus carpathicus''
Zeman, 1979
**''
Dermanyssus chelidonis''
Oudemans, 1939
**''
Dermanyssus diphyes''
Knee, 2008
**''
Dermanyssus faralloni''
Nelson & Furman, 1967
**''
Dermanyssus gallinae
''Dermanyssus gallinae'' (also known as the red mite) is a haematophagous ectoparasite of poultry. It has been implicated as a vector of several major pathogenic diseases. Despite its common names, it has a wide range of hosts including severa ...
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(DeGeer, 1778)
**''
Dermanyssus gallinoides''
Moss, 1966
**''
Dermanyssus grochovskae''
Zemskaya
**''
Dermanyssus hirsutus''
Moss & Radovsky, 1967
**''
Dermanyssus hirundinis''
(Hermann, 1804)
**''
Dermanyssus lacertarum''
(Contarini, 1847)
**''
Dermanyssus longipes''
Berlese & Trouessart
**''
Dermanyssus nipponensis''
Uchikawa & Kitaoka, 1981
**''
Dermanyssus passerinus''
Berlese & Trouessart, 1889
**''
Dermanyssus prognephilus''
Ewing, 1933
**''
Dermanyssus quintus''
Vitzthum, 1921
**''
Dermanyssus richiardii''
G. Canestrini & Fanzago, 1877
**''
Dermanyssus rwandae''
Fain, 1993
**''
Dermanyssus transvaalensis''
Evans & Till, 1962
**''
Dermanyssus triscutatus''
Krantz, 1959
**''
Dermanyssus trochilinis''
Moss, 1978
**''
Dermanyssus wutaiensis''
Gu & Ting, 1992
References
Mesostigmata
{{Mesostigmata-stub