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Acari: Limnic Acaridida (Astigmata)

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Mostly weakly sclerotized non-predatory mites with size range (adults) from 200 µm to 1800 µm. Movable coxae lacking in all instars; palps with maximally two movable podomeres; chelicerae in most families chelate, never sword-like or styletto-like; oviporus and copulatory opening two spatially separate body openings; males always with aedeagus; regularly two oil gland openings dorsally; life cycle comprising: egg (vivipary occurs), larva, protonymph, deutonymph (if present mostly facultative), tritonymph, adults; deutonymph missing (e. g. in all stationary parasites) or modified into an instar specialized for phoresy.

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Wurst, E. (2006). Acari: Limnic Acaridida (Astigmata). In: Gerecke, R. (eds) Süßwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, Vol. 7/2-1 Chelicerata: Araneae/Acari I. Süßwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55958-1_3

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