Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Slug parasitic mites
Posted by Isidro on 03-11-2007 15:20
#1
These white Acari are VERY COMMOM always over Slugs (not in Snails). Less than a milimeter long, all the year (picture taken in april 2007). Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. 200 meters high. Continental-mediterranean climate. Urban garden, moist soil, under a stone.
What species can be?
Thanks
Edited by Isidro on 03-11-2007 15:21
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 03-11-2007 15:26
#2
impossible to say!!! they are a hell to ID... even with a loup... with photos... it is almost impossible..
BUT
to me they seem to be Collembola!!! :| at least, i'm pretty sure that at upper right we are seeing some kind of Neanuridae... (Collembola)
Posted by Isidro on 04-11-2007 11:42
#3
Thanks!
NOT Collembola, anyway! Acari SURE. I know than identify the species by compare images is impossible, but identify it reading what species are slug parasites and what of these can be found in my zone, and after what of these can have this form and be white, all these things can reduce the possibilities to a small group of species or maybe even only one....
Posted by Tony Irwin on 05-11-2007 23:21
#4
Riccardoella limacum - just a guess, but it is the commonest of the slug mites - there are other
Riccardoella species it might be, but no ID without a specimen! :)
Posted by Isidro on 06-11-2007 00:07
#5
Ohhhhhhh many thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!! What I do without you!!!!??? you are an authentic encyclopedia...