Yunkeracarus

Yunkeracarus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Subclass: Acari
Order: Sarcoptiformes
(unranked): Astigmatina
Family: Gastronyssidae
Genus: Yunkeracarus
Fain, 1957
Species include

Yunkeracarus ascanicus
Yunkeracarus faini
Yunkeracarus microti
Yunkeracarus muris
Yunkeracarus stepposus

Yunkeracarus is a genus of mites belonging to the family Gastronyssidae. They live exclusively in the nostrils of rodents. Females can be recognized by the small transparent scales covering the body, males by the lack of copulatory suckers.

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