Sarcoptes scabiei

Familia: Sarcoptidae
Subfamilia: Sarcoptinae
Genus: Sarcoptes
Species:

Sarcoptes scabiei (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Acarus siro var. scabiei, original combination used by Linnaeus (1758)
• Sarcoptes scabiei, subsequent combination used by Latreille (1802)

• Sarcoptes scabiei infests many different mammalian hosts. "therefore, based on morphology alone, it is unclear if Sarcoptes mites associated with different hosts represent different species or simply different varieties of one species" (Arlian, 1989: 142).
• It corresponds to Pascal's mite (André, 2019)

• André, H.M. 2019. The true identity of Pascal’s mite and the diachronic use of ciron. Acarologia 59(2): 261–278.
• Arlian, L.G. 1989. Biology, host relations, and epidemiology of Sarcoptes scabiei. Annual Review of Entomology 34: 139–161.
• Fain, A. 1968. Etude de la variabilité de Sarcoptes scabiei avec une révision des Sarcoptidae. Acta Zoologica et Pathologica Antverpiensia 47: 1–196.
• Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Tome 8. Paris, F. Dufart.
• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiæ: impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. i–ii, 1–824 pp  DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542: 326. Reference page. 

• Mellanby, K. 1943. Scabies. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 81 pp. [reprinted 1973].

• Sarcoptes scabiei in the World Register of Marine Species

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