The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Acari

(water mites)

 

 hydrachna

HYDRACHNIDAE

Hydrachna sp.

 

Species reported
          from Texas:

 

 


Hydrachna miliaria
 
Hydrachna mystomirabilis

 

 

 
Distribution Citations

1939 Millspaugh

1969 Barker

1975 Riley
1976 Barnett
1977 Oliphant
1977 Taylor
1979 McCauley

 

 

1984 Robinson

1992 Bayer et al
1998 Moorhead Hall Willig

 

notes:

*not drought resistant (Moorhead Hall Willig 1998)

*parasitic (Moorhead Hall Willig 1998) on:
      Ranatra nigra (Millspaugh 1939)
      Belostoma fluminea (Millspaugh 1939)
      Ischnura posita (Robinson 1984)  

*refs are for reports of genus only; species refs not included here; [ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated
copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser 
                          2010

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