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Status Report on Mites and
Ticks of Luzon, Palawan and
Mindoro
by
Dr. Leonila C. Raros
HABITATS OF hlITES AND TICKS
Animab - invertebrates (sponges, molluscs, crurtnernns, insects,
myriapods, arachnids)
-vertebrates (amphibians, reptila, birds, mammnls
including humans)
Number of Acarine taxa, endemic species and % endemism
on various islands of the Philiuuines
DATA UPDATE: PHILIPPINE MITES AND TICKS
by Dr. Leonila C. Raros
HABITATS OF MlTES AND TICKS
> TermtriPl (mostly)
aquatic
bhwater
*mnrioe
> Fomt - p m . acwndary, denuded at various degms
> GRIslnnds - some can rcc4lonizc ama~ 1 week after experimental
burning
> Clrltivated a rm - lowland upland
> Buildings - on dust, fornifurc CicL beds); on stored food and feed o
plant or anid origin
nati of animab - bees, wasps, birds, rodents, bats
dried museum collections - insects, vertebrate skim
> Soil and overiying titter (decomposing bodies ofplants and animals,
dung)
Fungi (mushrooms), algae, mosses
Vascular plants
FEEDING HABITS OF MITES AND TICKS
PREDATORS - of other mite or plmnp, mnirnl* md soil
PARASITES -of invertebrate# lad vertebratea
-external (mody)
- in(cmd up. n d puaaga of vcrtebrmta but l*o
dap in lungs; 4.0 on skin, glands in cydids,
bair fdiida, q& offutbcrr, doau of
amphibians
-internal io spiracular chamber lad main trad~d hunka of insects. tympanum of insects
- of plmLI
D~WORES, IWNGIVORES. also on BACTERIA md
ACTPIOMYCFX'ES
Number of genera, species and % endemism of selected
well-studied acarine groups for Luzon Island.