Sarcoptes scabiei

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Psoroptoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Subclassis: Acari Superordo: Acariformes Ordo: Sarcoptiformes Subordo: Psoroptidia Superfamilia: Psoroptoidea

Familia: Sarcoptidae
Subfamilia: Sarcoptinae
Genus: Sarcoptes
Species: Sarcoptes scabiei

Name

Sarcoptes scabiei (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms

Acarus siro var. scabiei, original combination used by Linnaeus (1758)
Sarcoptes scabiei, subsequent combination used by Latreille (1802)

Note:

Sarcoptes scabiei infests many different mammalian hosts. "therefore, based on morphology alone, it is unclear if Sarcoptes mites associated with different hosts represent different species or simply different varieties of one species" (Arlian, 1989: 142).
It corresponds to Pascal's mite (André, 2019)

References

Primary references

André, H.M. 2019. The true identity of Pascal’s mite and the diachronic use of ciron. Acarologia 59(2): 261–278.
Arlian, L.G. 1989. Biology, host relations, and epidemiology of Sarcoptes scabiei. Annual Review of Entomology 34: 139–161.
Fain, A. 1968. Etude de la variabilité de Sarcoptes scabiei avec une révision des Sarcoptidae. Acta Zoologica et Pathologica Antverpiensia 47: 1–196.
Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Tome 8. Paris, F. Dufart.
Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiæ: impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. i–ii, 1–824 pp DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542: 326. Reference page.

Additional references

Mellanby, K. 1943. Scabies. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 81 pp. [reprinted 1973].

Links

Sarcoptes scabiei in the World Register of Marine Species

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Krätzemilbe
English: itch mite
español: arador de la mano
français: ciron
italiano: bacolino
Nederlands: siere or sierken
русский: Чесоточный зудень

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