''Charletonia kalithensis'' is a species of
mite
Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods) of two large orders, the Acariformes and the Parasitiformes, which were historically grouped together in the subclass Acari. However, most recent genetic analyses do not recover the two as eac ...
s belonging to the family
Erythraeidae
Erythraeidae is a family of mites belonging to the Trombidiformes. Larval forms of these mites are parasitic on various other arthropods, for example harvestmen, but the adults are free-living predators. These oval mites are rather large, usually ...
, first described from Greece.
[Haitlinger, R. Y. S. Z. A. R. D. "New records of mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Erythraeidae, Trombidiidae) from Samos, Greece, with descriptions of six new species." Systematic & Applied Acarology 11 (2006): 107-123.]
References
Further reading
*Hakimitabar, Masoud, et al. "Charletonia behshahriensis (Acari: Erythraeidae) from Iran with a key to species with two intercoxalae II and III." International Journal of Acarology 40.8 (2014): 595-604.
*Šundić, Miloje, and I. Pajovic. "Redescription and new morphological data on Charletonia bucephalia larva (Acari: Erythraeidae) from specimens collected in Montenegro." Agriculture and Forestry 59 (2013): 163-171.
Trombidiformes
Arachnids of Europe
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