Belongs within: Gamasina.
The Dermanyssidae are a group of mites ectoparasitic on birds and mammals.
Characters (from Evans & Till 1979): Tritosternum present; chelicerae in nymphal stages and female with second article conspicuously elongated, slender, stylet-like with digits minute; tarsi III and IV of male with seta pv2 modified into short tooth-like projection.
<==Dermanyssidae [Dermanyssida, Dermanyssinae]
|--Liponyssoides Hirst 1913 H98
| |--L. adsonis Domrow 1992 H98
| |--L. intermedius M68
| |--L. lukoschusi Domrow 1979 H98
| |--L. sanguineus R01
| `--L. warnekei Domrow 1963 H98
`--Dermanyssus Dugès 1834 H98
| i. s.: D. lacertarum (Contarini 1843) [=Ricinus lacertarum] CF77
| D. lanius CF77
| D. richiardii Canestrini & Fanzago 1877 CF77
|--D. (Dermanyssus) M68
| |--*D. (D.) gallinae (De Geer 1778) ET79 (see below for synonymy)
| |--D. (D.) chelidonis M68
| |--D. (D.) grochovskae M68
| |--D. (D.) hirsutus M68
| |--D. (D.) hirundinis (Hermann 1804) M68, H98 [=Acarus hirundinis CF77]
| |--D. (D.) prognephilus M68
| |--D. (D.) quintus M68
| |--D. (D.) transvaalensis M68
| `--D. (D.) triscutatus M68
`--D. (Microdermanyssus Moss 1967) ET79
|--D. (*M.) alaudae (Schrank 1781) [=Acarus alaudae] ET79
|--D. (M.) americanus Ewing 1923 M68, H98
`--D. (M.) brevis M68
*Dermanyssus (Dermanyssus) gallinae (De Geer 1778) ET79 [=Acarus gallinae CF77, Pulex gallinae CF77, Gamasus gallinae CF77; incl. Dermanyssus avium Dugès 1834 H98]
*Type species of generic name indicated
REFERENCES
[CF77] Canestrini, G., & F. Fanzago. 1877. Intorno agli Acari Italiani. Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Serie 5, 4: 69–208, pls 2–7.
[ET79] Evans, G. O., & W. M. Till. 1979. Mesostigmatic mites of Britain and Ireland (Chelicerata: Acari-Parasitiformes). An introduction to their external morphology and classification. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 35: 139–270.
[H98] Halliday, R. B. 1998. Mites of Australia: A checklist and bibliography. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood.
[M68] Moss, W. W. 1968. Experiments with various techniques of numerical taxonomy. Systematic Zoology 17 (1): 31–47.
[R01] Russell, R. C. 2001. The medical significance of Acari in Australia. In: Halliday, R. B., D. E. Walter, H. C. Proctor, R. A. Norton & M. J. Colloff (eds) Acarology: Proceedings of the 10th International Congress pp. 535–546. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.
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