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Definition of Trombidiidae

1. Noun. Mites.

Medical Definition of Trombidiidae

1. A family of mites that formerly included the subfamily Trombiculinae, now raised to the family Trombiculidae (including the vectors of tsutsugamushi disease). Trombidiidae larvae are characteristically parasitic on insects, not on vertebrates as with the larvae of Trombiculidae. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trombidiidae

Literary usage of Trombidiidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The Trombidiidae also are mostly free-living predaceous mites. A few, however, are parasitic upon mammals and birds, the best-known being ..."

2. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"The family Trombidiidae (Trom-bi-di'-i-dae) includes the well- known harvest-mites. These are always red in colour, but some are much darker than others. ..."

3. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Trombidiidae. Harvest mites. Body globular or elongate, red in color, and hairy, usually with a transverse suture between the second and third legs; ..."

4. The Microscope: Its History, Construction, and Application, Being a Familiar by Jabez Hogg (1871)
"... and the rostrum and palpi very long ; whilst Trombidiidae, of which the little scarlet mite so often seen in gardens is an example, have their palpi ..."

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