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PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE SPECIES OF ACARINA OF NORTH AMERICA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Herbert Osborn  and
Lucien M. Underwood
Herbert Osborn
Affiliation:
of the Iowa Agricultural, College.
Lucien M. Underwood
Affiliation:
of Syracuse University.
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The Acarina, especially the more minute forms, have been but little studied in America, a fact which seems the more strange when we consider what interesting objects they form for microscopic work. As in most groups of Arthropoda, the pioneer work in this country was done by Thomas Say, whose descriptions of a number of the larger species appeared as early as 1821. Later on Dana and Whelpley (1836), and Haldeman (1842), contributed descriptions of a few species. More recently Dr's. Fitch, Leidy, Packard, Riley, LeBaron and Shimer, and Mr. Ashmead, have published descriptions of species and notes on habits, while quite lately Mr. Harry Garman has published a valuable paper on the Phytoptidæ, which it is hoped he will follow up by still more extensive study of this family.

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Articles
Information
The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 1886 , pp. 4 - 12
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1886

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