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Ophionyssus
Sign in to saveOphionyssus is a genus of bird mites in the family Macronyssidae. There are about seven described species in Ophionyssus.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderMesostigmata
- FamilyMacronyssidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 30
- With media
- 7
- Family
- Macronyssidae
- Collections
- INHS, NAUF, UWM, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ACAROLOGY LABORATORY, COLUMBUS, OH (OSAL), QM, TAMU
- Recorded in
- United States, Malaysia, Netherlands
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Ophionyssus is a genus of bird mites in the family Macronyssidae. There are about seven described species in Ophionyssus.
==Species== These seven species belong to the genus Ophionyssus: Ophionyssus galeotes Domrow, Heath & Kennedy, 1980 Ophionyssus javanensis Mich. & Lukoschus Ophionyssus lacertinus (Berlese, 1892) Ophionyssus natricis (Gervais, 1844) Ophionyssus saurarum (Oudemans, 1901) Ophionyssus schreibericolus Ophionyssus scincorum Domrow, Heath & Kennedy, 1980
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