Psoroptes cuniculi
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Psoroptes cuniculi is a parasitic living mites and pathogens of ear mite in rabbits , horses , goats and deer .
Females are 400 to 750 µm long and 350–500 µm wide, males 430–550 × 320–460 µm. In addition, there is a gnathosoma that is around 125 µm long in females and around 95 µm in length in males , which is longer than it is wide. The third and fourth pair of legs protrude beyond the outer edge of the body. The females wear trumpet-shaped adhesive flaps on the first, second and fourth, the males on the first three pairs of legs on a long articulated sticky handle.
The adults prick the epidermis with their stiletto-like chelicerae up to the upper dermis layer of the host and feed primarily on lymph and tissue fluid . The development from an egg through a larval and two nymph stages to the adult form takes two to three weeks.
literature
- Josef Boch and Rudolf Stupperer: Veterinary Parasitology . Paul Parey, 3rd ed. 1983, pp. 508-509.
- Wieland Beck: Ear mange caused by Psoroptes cuniculi (Acari: Psoroptidae) in domestic rabbits - pathogen biology, pathogenesis, clinical features, diagnosis and therapy. In: Kleintierpracxis 45 (2000), pp. 301-308.