Definition of Family Sarcoptidae

1. Noun. Small whitish mites.

Exact synonyms: Sarcoptidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Acarina, Order Acarina
Member holonyms: Genus Sarcoptes, Sarcoptes

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Sarcoptidae

family Ruscaceae
family Russulaceae
family Rutaceae
family Rynchopidae
family Saccharomycetaceae
family Sagittariidae
family Salamandridae
family Salicaceae
family Salmonidae
family Salpidae
family Salvadoraceae
family Salviniaceae
family Santalaceae
family Sapindaceae
family Sapotaceae
family Sarcoptidae (current term)
family Sarcoscyphaceae
family Sarraceniaceae
family Saturniidae
family Satyridae
family Saururaceae
family Saxifragaceae
family Scarabaeidae
family Scaridae
family Scheuchzeriaceae
family Schistosomatidae
family Schizaeaceae
family Schizophyceae
family Schizosaccharomycetaceae
family Sciadopityaceae

Literary usage of Family Sarcoptidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1904)
"therefore without stigmata, that the family sarcoptidae belong, the respiration being entirely cutaneous. The acari belonging to this family may be ..."

2. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"FVT] Family. Sarcoptidae (Itch Mites). Small mites without eyes and tracheae, and with delicate, transversely striated cuticle. The mouth parts form a cone, ..."

3. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"... To the family Sarcoptidae belong the itch-mites, which' are so-called because they often burrow within ..."

4. Manual of Microbiologic Monitoring of Laboratory Animals edited by Kim Waggie (1994)
"... Family: Sarcoptidae) Notoedres resembles Sarcoptes, but the female of Notoedres lacks dorsal spines, cones and triangular scales (1). ..."

5. Sanitary Entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"The itch or scab mites belong to the family Sarcoptidae. SCABIES or SARCOPTIC ITCH is caused by a species of the genus Sarcoptes, of which various species ..."

6. Diseases of the skin by Richard Lightburn Sutton (1919)
"... family Sarcoptidae), and the disease is always a result of the deposition of an impregnated female on the skin. Intimate contact with infected Fig. 806. ..."

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