Dermanyssidae

Chicken mite Dermanyssus gallinae, from here.

Belongs within: Gamasina.

The Dermanyssidae are a group of ectoparasitic mites in which females have the second segment of the chelicera much longer than the basal segment. Species of the genus Dermanyssus are found only on birds whereas Liponyssoides may be found on rodents.

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) ET79
         |    |--*D. (D.) gallinae (De Geer 1778) ET79 (see below for synonymy)
         |    |--D. (D.) chelidonis ET79
         |    |--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. (Allodermanyssus) sanguineus H23
         `--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 ET79, Gamasus gallinae CF77, Pulex 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.

[H23] Hirst, S. 1923. On some new or little-known species of Acari. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1923: 971–1000.

[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 10^th International Congress pp. 535–546. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.

Last updated: 14 February 2020.