Sarcoptes scabei

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Psoroptoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Subclassis: Acari
Superordo: Acariformes
Ordo: Sarcoptiformes
Subordo: Psoroptidia
Superfamilia: Psoroptoidea

Familia: Sarcoptidae
Subfamilia: Sarcoptinae
Genus: Sarcoptes
Species: Sarcoptes scabiei

Name

Sarcoptes scabiei (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms

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

Note:

  • 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)

References

Primary references

  • 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. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 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. 

Additional references

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

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Súren, Seur or Seuren, Krätzemilbe
English: syrones, hand-worm, wheale-worm, scabies or itch mite
español: arador de la mano, arador de la sarna
français: ciron (Pascal' mite-XVII), sarcopte
italiano: bacolino, sciro, sérola, pellicello, pidocclietto, pedicello, Acaro della scabbia
Nederlands: siere or sierken
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