Rake-legged Mite: Dorsal

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida)

Order:

Mites (Trombidiformes)

Family:

Snout Mite (Bdellidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Rake-legged Mite (Caeculidae sp)

This Photo:

Dorsal

Thank you Owen Seeman for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
2nd Record in SA on Atlas:
~1mm long
We thought it might be Microcaeculus sp. Owen said "Probably best left at the family level. The family is poorly worked on in Australia despite their abundance, and the genera Neocaeculus and Microcaeculus are difficult to impossible to distinguish."

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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