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Definition of Family sarcoptidae
1. Noun. Small whitish mites.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Acarina, Order Acarina
Member holonyms: Genus Sarcoptes, Sarcoptes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Sarcoptidae
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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