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Definition of Order Acarina
1. Noun. Mites and ticks.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Arachnida, Class Arachnida
Member holonyms: Acarine, Tick, Family Ixodidae, Ixodidae, Argasidae, Family Argasidae, Mite, Acaridae, Family Acaridae, Family Trombidiidae, Trombidiidae, Family Trombiculidae, Trombiculidae, Family Sarcoptidae, Sarcoptidae, Acarus, Genus Acarus, Family Tetranychidae, Tetranychidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Acarina
Literary usage of Order Acarina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical and Veterinary Entomology: A Textbook for Use in Schools and by William Brodbeck Herms (1915)
"order Acarina. — To the order Acarina belong the ticks and mites. The cephalothorax
and abdomen are fused, the larvae have only three pairs of legs; ..."
2. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"TICKS AND MITES (order Acarina) From an economic standpoint the mites and ticks,
constituting the order Acarina, are by far the most important members of ..."
3. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1904)
"THE classification of the order acarina. though far from being finally settled
in regard to the position which some of its families may hold, ..."
4. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"The order Acarina is one of great biologic interest and of equally great economic
importance; but the minute size of most of the species makes its study ..."
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