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Ectoparasites Of Exotics Flashcards

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What is the Genus and species whose common name is the rodent botfly that infest mice, rats, chipmunks, squirrels, rabbits, and many other mammals?

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Cuterebra species

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What are the Genus and species of the 2 flies whose common name is flesh flies, that the adults of these flies are large (up to 1⁄2 inch long) and feed on decaying meat?

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Sarcophaga species and Wohlfahrtia vigil

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What is the Genus and species of the lice whose common name is the rabbit louse that is a member of the insect order Anoplura (the sucking lice). The adult rabbit louse usually feeds on the rabbit’s back, sides, and groin. The bloodsucking activity of this louse causes an intense itching?

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Haemodipsus ventricosus

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What is the Genus and species of the guinea pig lice that belong to the insect order Mallophaga (the chewing or bitting lice). These are normal-sized lice; adults measure about 1 to 1.5 mm long.

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Gliricola porcelli and Gyropus ovalis

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What is the Genus and species of the Guinea pig louse what is known as the “slender guinea pig louse”

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Gliricola porcelli

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What is the Genus and species of the Guinea pig louse what is known as the “oval guinea pig louse?”

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Gyropus ovalis

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What is the Genus and species of the lice that infests mice and rats?

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Polyplax species and Hoplopleura species

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What are the Genus and species of the 2 mites that infests mice whose common name is fur mites of mice?

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Myobia musculi and Radfordia affinis

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What is the Genus and species of the mite that infests rats whose common name is the fur mite of rats?

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Radfordia ensifera

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What is the mites that infests Guinea pigs whose common name is the guinea pig fur mite?

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Chirodiscoides caviae

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What is the Genus and species of the mite that infests rabbits whose common name is fur mite of rabbits?

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Cheyletiella parasitovorax

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What are the Genus and species of the 2 mites that infest mice whose common names are Mouse mange mice?

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Myocoptes musculinus and Myocoptes romboutsi

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What is the Genus and species of the mite that infests Guinea pigs whose common name is Mange mite of Guinea pigs?

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Trixacarus caviae

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What is the Genus and species of the mite whose common name is Demodectic Mange Mites of Gerbils?

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Demodex meroni

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What are the Genus and species of the two types demodectic Mange Mites that infest hamsters?

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Demodex criceti and Demodex aurati

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What are the Genus and species of the 2 types of mites whose common name Ear Mange Mites of Rodents?

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Notoedres muris and Notoedres notoedres

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What is the Genus and species of the ear mite of rabbits?

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Psoroptes cuniculi

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What is the Genus and species of the fox maggot fly is a flesh fly that lays larvae on the intact skin of young foxes and mink. The larvae can penetrate the skin and feed inside the host?

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Wohlfahrtia vigil

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What is the genus and species of The rodent bot fly that infests ferrets and often feeds on mink and foxes?

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Cuterebra species

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What is the Genus and species of the flea that infests ferrets that also infest dogs and cats?

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Ctenocephalides species

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What are the Genus and species of the ticks of ferrets, these also infest dogs and cats?

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Rhipicephalus sanguineus, Ixodes scapularis, Dermacentor variabilis

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What are the Genus and species of mites that infest ferrets that also infest dogs and cats?

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Otodectes cynotis

Sarcoptes scabiei

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What is the Genus and species of adult flesh flies of turtles?

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Cistudinomyia cistudinis

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What is the Genus and species of snake mites?

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Ophionyssus natricis

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What is the Genus and species of the Iguana tick?

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Amblyomma dissimile

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What is the Genus and species of the tick that lives on mammals and birds as a larva and on the gopher tortoise as a nymph and adult whose common name is Gopher Tortoise tick?

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Amblyomma tuberculatum

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What is the Genus and species of lice that infect chickens whose common name is Chicken body louse?

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Menacanthus stramineus

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What is the Genus and species of the louse that whose common name is the shaft louse that is a common ectoparasite of chickens and other fowl. It lives on the feathers of the breast and thighs?

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Menopon gallinae

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What is the Genus and species of flea whose common name is the stick-tight flea that turns up on chickens and turkeys in the southern United States, usually in older, poorly managed poultry houses. This flea can also feed on dogs and cats that live in or near a ranch farmhouse.

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Echidnophaga gallinacea

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What is the Genus and species of the tick whose common name is the fowl ticks, that are soft ticks that feed on chickens and other birds. The larval fowl ticks feed for about 1 week on the bird. The larvae then drop o and molt into nymphs. Both nymphs and adult fowl ticks feed on the bird at night and then leave it to hide in nearby cracks and crevices during the day.

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Argas species

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What is the Genus and species of the mite whose common name is the Northern Fowl Mite which is the most common ectoparasite of U.S. poultry, feeds on domestic fowl and wild birds. The adults are about 1 mm long and dark red when engorged with blood.

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Ornithonyssus sylviarum

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What is the Genus and species of the mite is a bloodsucking mite attacks poultry and many different wild birds. Only the nymphs and the adult chicken mites feed off birds. This mite lives on the host during the day, returning to the bird at night to feed. The common name is the Chicken mite

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Dermanyssus gallinae

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What is the Genus and species of the mite whose common name is scaly-leg mite lives on poultry and domestic and wild birds. All stages of this mite live on the bird; it travels from bird to bird by direct contact between hosts. This is a small mite that looks like Sarcoptes scabiei?

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Knemidocoptes mutans

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What is the Genus and species of the larval mite whose common name is the Turkey Chigger?

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Neoschoengastia americana

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