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Radfordia palustris

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Myobiidae

Subgenus
  
Hesperomyobia

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Trombidiformes

Class
  
Arachnida

Genus
  
Radfordia

Scientific name
  
Radfordia palustris

Rank
  
Species

Similar
  
Myobia, Listrophoridae, Ornithonyssus bacoti, Androlaelaps, Trombidiformes

Radfordia palustris is a species of mite in the subgenus Hesperomyobia of the genus Radfordia. It has been recorded on the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.

Literature cited

  • Bochkov, A.V. 1996. Hesperomyobia (Acari: Myobiidae: Radfordia), a new subgenus of myobiid mites from rodents of the family Hesperomyidae (Rodentia). Acarina 4(1–2):39–42.
  • Whitaker, J.O., Walters, B.L., Castor, L.K., Ritzi, C.M. and Wilson, N. 2007. Host and distribution lists of mites (Acari), parasitic and phoretic, in the hair or on the skin of North American wild mammals north of Mexico: records since 1974. Faculty Publications from the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1:1–173.

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