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Species of Mites.
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Life cycle of Neotrombicula autumnalis. 1–4 A six-legged parasitic larva hatches from the egg and starts feeding by scratching the skin of vertebrates ( A). 5–6 Having finished feeding the larva enters the soil and develops into an inactive protonymph (5), which hatches to become an active predaceous deutonymph (6). 7–8 After a phase of inactivity as a tritonymph (7) sexually mature adults (8) are formed, which are found on beetles, potato peels (P), etc.; they finally start copulation.
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(2008). Neotrombicula autumnalis. In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48996-2_2102
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