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Red-and-black Flat Mite

Brevipalpus phoenicis

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

United States7
Hawaii1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassArachnids · Arachnida
OrderTrombidiform Mites · Trombidiformes
FamilyFlat mites · Tenuipalpidae
GenusBrevipalpus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Red-and-black Flat Mite with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.