Acarus siro

Familia: Acaridae
Subfamilia: Acarinae
Genus: Acarus
Species:

• Acarus siro Linnaeus, 1758
  • ZooBank

• Acarus farinae

• Pascal’s mite is not Acarus siro L., as usually thought, but Sarcoptes scabiei (L.). In everyday language and in Pascal’s time, the term used to designate A. siro L. was mite (used singly, in English and French) and not ciron, a word restricted to the scabies mite (cf André, 2019).

• André, H.M. 2019. The true identity of Pascal’s mite and the diachronic use of ciron. Acarologia 59(2): 261–278.
• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page.  [first availability, see p. 616]

• Webster, L.M.I.; Thomas, R.H.; McCormack, G.P. 2004: Molecular systematics of Acarus siro s. lat., a complex of stored food pests. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 32(3): 817-822. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.04.005 Reference page. 

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