Lexic.us

Definition of Family acaridae

1. Noun. Mites.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Acaridae

Literary usage of Family acaridae

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

1. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1871)
"... tribe in the family Acaridae, distinguished likewise by having the whole surface covered with minute tubercles (like the parasite of the human nose) ..."

2. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1871)
"... with a third form described some years since in France, he regarded as constituting a distinct tribe of the family Acaridae, and must at all events be ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin by John Vietch Shoemaker (1890)
"... order Acarina, . and family Acaridae. It is the female acarus only which, by her burrowing in the epidermis, occasions the lesions on the skin, ..."

4. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1871)
"... with a third form described some years since in France, he regarded as constituting a distinct tribe of the family Acaridae, and must at all events be ..."

5. A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin by Louis Adolphus Duhring (1881)
"... and family Acaridae. The female is usually met with, the male, probably, taking no part in causing the cutaneous lesions, and for this reason being very ..."

6. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1893)
"It was formerly called the acarus scabiei, from the fact that it belongs to the order acarina, family acaridae, class arach ..."

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