Preliminary investigations on transmission and life cycle of the ear mites of the genus Raillietia trouessart (Acari: Gamasida) parasites of cattle

Costa, Arlindo Luis da; Leite, Rômulo Cerqueira; Faccini, João Luiz Horacio

doi:10.1590/S0074-02761992000500019

Abstract

The life cycle of ear mites of the genus Raillietia Trouessart consists of egg, larva, proto-and deutonymph and adult. The proto-and deutonymph are free living, non feeding instars. The teneral adult is the transfer stage. The minimum period required for completion of the life cycle is approximately eight days.

Raillietia; ear mites; cattle; life cycle

ABSTRACT

Preliminary investigations on transmission and life cycle of the ear mites of the genus Raillietia trouessart (Acari: Gamasida) parasites of cattle

Arlindo Luis da Costa¹

Rômulo Cerqueira Leite²

João Luiz Horacio Faccini³

EMBRAPA-UEPAE, Rio Branco, Brasil

UFMG, Escola de Veterinária, Belo Horizonte, Brasil

UFRRJ, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Seropédica, Brasil

The life cycle of ear mites of the genus Raillietia Trouessart consists of egg, larva, proto-and deutonymph and adult. The proto-and deutonymph are free living, non feeding instars. The teneral adult is the transfer stage. The minimum period required for completion of the life cycle is approximately eight days.

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15 June 2009
Date of issue
1992

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