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Trombidium muscae domesticae
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Trombidium muscae domesticae
Etymology
From the Greek thrombos (which means blood clot referring to the colour and form).
Family
Traditional name
Italian: acaro della mosca
English: Red Acarus of Common Fly
Used parts
Tincture of the animals
Classification
Animalia; Arachnida; Acarina - Mites; Prostigmata; Trombidiidae
Keywords
parasite
insect
Original proving
The provings, under the supervision of Hering, were made with the 3x, 6x, 9c, 18c. and 30c potencies.
Description of the substance
Family: Trombidiidae (Mites, Velvet Mites)
Dinothrobium magnificum (Leconte). Common to abundant in patches after summer rains. This large
red "velvet mite" may be active for only a few hours each year, and not every year. It emerges from
underground on mornings following rain when winged termites are flying (Tevis and Newell 1962).
Eats winged termites that have fallen to the ground or are emerging. Two specimens, both from BP
7/23/88. Found in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas (Essig 1958)
Systematic Synopsis of Medically Important Groups of Mites
Class Arachnida, Subclass Acari (Acarina) - mites
Superorder Parasitiformes - ticks and tick-like mites
Order Ixodida (Metastigmata) – ticks (Ixodidae, Argasidae)
Order Mesostigmata
Superfamily: Dermanyssoidea - poultry mites, nasal mites, rat mites etc.
Superorder Acariformes - mite-like mites
Order Prostigmata - includes mange, scab, itch & follicle mites
Superfamily Trombiculoidea – scrub itch, chiggers
Superfamily Cheyletoidea - mange and follicle mites, walking dandruff
Family Pyemotidae – straw itch mites.
Trombiculidae belonging to the family of the Arachnides. Prostigmatic mites which show a body divided into two regions through an obstruction and covered by a thin fluff of a bright red colour . They are the external parasites of the Vertebrates, man included, whom they cause fastidious dermatitis or transmit the agents of serious infectious diseases.
Trombidiforms.
A group (trombidiformes) with a sub-order value, the so-called Prostigmates, of actinotric mites including various species, free or parasite, which may be found in the most different environments, i.e. soil, food, underground waters and surface waters. Trombidiforms show stigmas close to the gnatosome and are without anal hole, which is replaced by a pore through which the excretions produced by a single excretory organ are discharged . To recall some of the main genera : Trombicula, Demodex, Halacarus, Limnochares and Hydrachna.