Abstract
There are several aberrant species of mites within the genus Demodex some of which cause severe forms of mange in animals, but only one species, D. folliculorum, the hair follicle mite, infects man. The mite is extremely small (0.3–0.4 mm), has a striated abdomen and is remarkably non-mite like. It looks rather like a segmented worm, but the thorax has four pairs of very short and fat five-segmented legs. It cannot be confused with any other arthropod infecting man.
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Service, M.W. (1980). Miscellaneous mites of minor medical importance (Order Prostigmata: Families Demodicidae and Pyemotidae: Order Astigmata: Families Acaridae, and Pyroglyphidae: Order Mesostigmata: Family Dermanyssidae). In: A Guide to Medical Entomology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16334-2_24
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