01425nas a2200133 4500008004100000245009900041210006900140260001200209300001000221490000600231520090200237100002801139856012401167 1998 eng d00aThe water mite Thyas barbigera Viets (Hydrachnellae: Thyasidae) parasitizing mosquitoes0 awater mite iThyas barbigerai Viets Hydrachnellae Thyasidae paras c08/1998 a10-120 v23 a

The larvae of several species of water mites are ectoparasites on adult mosquitoes, the majority of the mites recorded belonging to the genera Thyas (Thyasidae) and Arrenurus (Arrenuridae). Mullen (1975) presented 238 world-wide records of acarine parasites of mosquitoes but more than half of the observations concerned unidentified or doubtfully identified mites. In Europe parasitism of mosquitoes by water mites is mainly recorded from England and Germany (Mullen, 1975). From Denmark only Thyasides dentata (Thor) (on Aedes flavescens
(Müller) and Arrenurus globator (Müller) (on Anopheles maculipennis Meigen) have been recorded (Lundblad, 1927). However, Danish woodland mosquitoes are frequently parasitized by water mites. In this paper aspects of the parasitic association are analysed.

1 aNielson, Boy, Overgaard uhttps://e-m-b.myspecies.info/content/water-mite-ithyas-barbigerai-viets-hydrachnellae-thyasidae-parasitizing-mosquitoes