#acarine  mite or tick
  supertype:  #arachnid__arachnoid  air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs
  member of:  #order_Acarina
  subtype:  #tick  any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
     subtype:  #hard_tick__ixodid  ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head
        subtype:  #Ixodes_dammini__deer_tick  a northeastern tick now recognized as same species as Ixodes scapularis
        subtype:  #Ixodes_neotomae  a tick that usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to dusky-footed woodrats
        subtype:  #Ixodes_pacificus__western_black-legged_tick  feeds on dusky-footed woodrat and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California
        subtype:  #Ixodes_scapularis__black-legged_tick  parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England); northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick)
        subtype:  #sheeptick__ixodesricinu  parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans; can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system); a vector for Lyme disease spirochete
        subtype:  #Ixodes_persulcatus  bites humans; a vector for Lyme disease spirochete
        subtype:  #Ixodes_dentatus  usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to cottontail rabbits and woodrats
        subtype:  #Ixodes_spinipalpis  usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to cottontail rabbits and wood rats
        subtype:  #wood_tick__American_dog_tick__Dermacentor_variabilis  common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia
     subtype:  #soft_tick__argasid  tick lacking a dorsal shield and having mouth parts on the under side of the head
  subtype:  #mite  any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods
     subtype:  #acarid  very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks
     subtype:  #trombidiid  mite that in all stages feeds on other arthropods
     subtype:  #trombiculiid  mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates
        subtype:  #harvest_mite__harvestmite__jigger__redbug  larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
     subtype:  #acarus  a mite of the genus Acarus
     subtype:  #itch_mite__sarcoptid  whitish mites that attack the skin of humans and other animals; "itch mites cause scabies"
     subtype:  #spider_mite__tetranychid  web-spinning mite that attacks garden plants and fruit trees
        subtype:  #red_spider_mite__red_spider__redspider__Panonychus_ulmi  small web-spinning mite; a serious orchard pest

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