Acaria - Reflexions

Acaria

This is a sub-class of the order of arachnids. The Acari have eight legs, like spiders and scorpions. There are about 50,000 species of Acaria. These arachnids look like small, thick, disks (the disk is their abdomen), and attached to this is a thorax that incorporates the head (cephalothorax). The species of the order Acaria are parasites that eat blood and/or dead skin from a host animal. Contact with them can provoke allergies in the host and various kinds of dermatitis, as well as providing an opportunity for the transmission of infectious diseases.