Ectoparasites Flashcards
what are some characteristics of fleas?
- small
- wingless
- adults feed on blood
- laterally flattened
what are the latin names for a cat and dog flea?
cat - ctenocephalids felis
dog - ctenocephalids canis
what are some characteristics of lice?
- 6 legs
- sucking or biting/chewing
- permanent parasites
what is the name of a dog sucking louse?
linognathus setosus
what is the name of a dog biting/chewing louse?
trichodectes canis
what are some characteristics of mites?
- 8 legs
- arachnids
- most of life cycle on host
- burrowing/non burrowing
what are some characteristics of a demodex canis?
- burrowing
- short legs
- cigar shaped
- permanent
what are some characteristics of a sarcoptes scabiei?
- burrowing
- round body and short legs
- permanent
- zoonotic
- canine and feline
what are some characteristics of a trixacarus caviae?
- scabies mite of the guinea pig
- not zoonotic
- burrowing
what are some characteristics of a neotrombicula autumnalis?
- harvest mite
- 6 legs
- rounded orange body
what are some characteristics of a psoroptes cuniculi?
- rabbit ear mite
- non-burrowing
- signs being ear scratching or head shaking
what are some characteristics of notoedres cati?
- burrowing mite
- circular flattened body
- cats
what are some characteristics of otedectes cynotis?
- ear mite
- lives in ears of carnivores
- oval body
- non-burrowing
what are some characteristics of cheyletiella?
- c yasguri - dog
- c blakei - cat
- c parasitovorax - rabbits
- non burrowing
- permanent
- long legs, waist
what are some characteristics of ticks?
- 8 legs
- lxodes ricinus
-feed periodically - vectors of lyme disease
