Species list, Checklist of Infraclass Acari (Mites and Ticks) for Cape of Good Hope (Cape Peninsula)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Infraclass Acari Nitzsch, 1818 (Mites and Ticks)
and region Cape of Good Hope (Cape Peninsula)

Class	Arachnida Lamarck, 1801 Arachnids	17 20 21	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Micrura Ehrenberg, 1831	14 16 17	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Acari Nitzsch, 1818 Mites and Ticks	7 7 7	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Cape of Good Hope
7 Families width 7 Species

Acaridae (Latreille, 1802)	Acarid mites	1	Species	Taxom
Tetracondylidae Aoki, 1961		1	Species	Taxom
Histiostomatidae Berlese, 1897		1	Species	Taxom
Ixodidae (C. L. Koch, 1844)	Hard Tick	2	Species	Taxom
Pachylaelapidae Berlese, 1913		1	Species	Taxom
Amblyommidae Banks, 1907		1	Species	Taxom
Trombidiidae Leach, 1815	Beer Bahuti	0	Species	Taxom

Genera for Cape of Good Hope
7 Genera with 7 Species

Acarus Linnaeus, 1746		1	Species	Taxom
Carabocepheus Berlese, 1910		1	Species	Taxom
Histiostoma Kramer, 2001		1	Species	Taxom
Ixodes Latreille, 1852		2	Species	Taxom
Olopachys Berlese, 1984		1	Species	Taxom
Rhipicephalus Ziemanni Neu..., 1901		1	Species	Taxom
Trombidium Fabricius, 1775	Velvet mite	0	Species	Taxom

Species list for Cape of Good Hope
7 Species

Acarus reduvius (Linnaeus, 1746)	⇒
Carabocepheus lounsburyi Berlese, 1910
Histiostoma (Histiostoma) heriades Fain & Pauly, 2001
Ixodes (Ceratixodes) uriae White, 1852	Common seabird tick
Ixodes (Ixodes) ricinus (Murray, 1852)	⇒ Ixodes scapularis Say, 1821
Olopachys copris Ishikawa, 1984
Rhipicephalus (Rhipicephalus) appendiculatus Neumann, 1901	Brown ear tick

Subnodes of Acari with occurrences in Cape of Good Hope

Superorder	Acariformes Zakhvatkin, 1952 dust mites, mites	4 4 3	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Parasitiformes Reuter, 1909 mites, ticks	3 3 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom

Acari (Nitzsch 1818)

Links, sources and further information

Acari at artfakta.se
Acari at biodiversity.org.au
Acari at dyntaxa.se
Acari at marinespecies.org