The Parasitiformes are an order of Acari (treated as a suborder and superorder in outdated classifications). Many species are parasitic (most famous of which are ticks), but not all; for example, about half of the 10,000 known species in the suborder Mesostigmata are predatory and cryptozoan, living in the soil-litter, rotting wood, dung, carrion,...
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(from the article `arachnid`) ...species. Eyes present or absent; habitats from aquatic to terrestrial; predatory to parasitic.Order Parasitiformes (mites and ticks)11,000 ... ...America, Central Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean region; carnivorous and possibly omnivorous; of no economic importance; 1 family and about 12 ... [2 re...
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