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any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods
mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates

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ダニ(動植物や貯蔵品などに寄生する虫)
〈U〉《時にa ~》(…の)ごく少量,ごく少額,ほんのちょっぴり《+『of』+『名』》 / 〈C〉《話》ごく小さいもの,小動物,小銭;少額の寄付 / 《a ~》《副詞的に》ちょっと

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Species Abundance Distribution of Ectoparasites on Norway Rats (Rattus norvegicus) from a Localized Area in Southwest China.

Guo XG1, Dong WG1, Men XY2, Qian TJ1, Wu D1, Ren TG1, Qin F1, Song WY1, Yang ZH1, Fletcher QE3.
Journal of arthropod-borne diseases.J Arthropod Borne Dis.2016 Jan 5;10(2):192-200. eCollection 2016.
BACKGROUND: The species of ectoparasites that live on a specific host in a geographical region form an ectoparasite community. Species abundance distributions describe the number of individuals observed for each different species that is encountered within a community. Based on properties of the spe
PMID 27308277

Chigger mites of the genus Ericotrombidium (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) attacking pets in Europe.

Stekolnikov AA1, Waap H2, Gomes J3, Antunes T4.
Veterinary parasitology.Vet Parasitol.2016 May 15;221:60-3. doi: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2016.03.009. Epub 2016 Mar 17.
Diversity of chigger mites causing trombiculiasis of domestic animals and humans in Europe is greatly underestimated. A number of reports on the attacks of "harvest mite" (Neotrombicula autumnalis) could be based on misidentified chiggers from other species and genera. In this study descriptions of
PMID 27084473

An updated distribution and hosts: trombiculid mites (Acari: Trombidiformes) associated with small mammals in Yunnan Province, southwest China.

Peng PY1, Guo XG2, Ren TG1, Dong WG1, Song WY1.
Parasitology research.Parasitol Res.2016 May;115(5):1923-38. doi: 10.1007/s00436-016-4934-4. Epub 2016 Feb 2.
Trombiculid mites (or chigger mites) are a large group of arthropods, and some of these species are vectors of Orientia tsutsugamushi, the causative agent of tsutsugamushi disease (scrub typhus). Yunnan Province is situated in the southwest of China, and its complicated topography, special altitude
PMID 26833324