Some further records of feather mites (Acari: Astigmata) in Yorkshire

摘要

Feather mites, whilst considered by some people to be parasites and by others to be commensals, could also be considered symbionts They feed upon feather fragments, skin debris, lipids (preening oil) and fungal spores (Aksin, 2007). They spend their entire life-cycle upon their host. Some species are monoxenous, that is, they are to be found only on a single host species, whilst others are oligoxenous and are to be found on a few, closely related, host species. This paper brings the number of species recorded in Yorkshire to sixty-one.