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Definition of Trombidiid
1. Noun. Mite that in all stages feeds on other arthropods.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trombidiid
Literary usage of Trombidiid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1922)
"The whole inside of the body is remodeled, a fourth pair of legs is acquired,
and after a few weeks the skin is shed and an adult trombidiid mite crawls ..."
2. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"The family trombidiid^E includes the harvest mites or "chiggers" (Fig. 321).
These little creatures are transferred by contact from plants to the bodies of ..."
3. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1912)
"... and so far as known to us there is no exact record of the finding of a trombidiid
on a mosquito. Specimens of these mites taken from a mosquito at ..."
4. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"... last pair of legs and then closely resembles certain imperfectly segmented
parasitic insects like the lice. The red mites (trombidiid*) and water mites, ..."
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