A gallery of the key characters to ease identification of Dermanyssus gallinae (Acari: Gamasida: Dermanyssidae) and allow differentiation from Ornithonyssus sylviarum (Acari: Gamasida: Macronyssidae)

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Di Palma, Antonella ^a   Giangaspero, Annunziata ^a   Cafiero, Maria Assunta ^b   Germinara, Giacinto S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA PUGLIA E DELLA BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

External morphology; Identification; Light microscopy; Northern fowl mite; Poultry red mite; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHELICERATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LEG; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORE; MITE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; ORNITHONYSSUS SYLVIARUM; PHOTOGRAPHY; POULTRY FARMING; RED MITE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHOULDER; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TIBIA;

ACARI; ANIMALS; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NYMPH; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACARI; DERMANYSSIDAE; DERMANYSSOIDEA; DERMANYSSUS GALLINAE; GAMASIDA; MACRONYSSIDAE; ORNITHONYSSUS SYLVARUM; ORNITHONYSSUS SYLVIARUM;

EID: 84861548124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-104     Document Type: Article

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