Acarology Explained

Acarology (from Ancient Greek /,, a type of mite; and, ) is the study of mites and ticks,^[1] the animals in the order Acarina. It is a subfield of arachnology, a subdiscipline of the field of zoology. A zoologist specializing in acarology is called an acarologist. Acarologists may also be parasitologists because many members of Acarina are parasitic. Many acarologists are studying around the world both professionally and as amateurs.^[2] The discipline is a developing science and research has been provided for it in more recent history.

Acarological organisations

• Laboratory of Medical Acarology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Tick Research Laboratory, University of Rhode Island
• Tick Research Lab at Texas A&M University

Acarological societies

International

• International Congress of Acarology
• Societe Internationale des Acarologues de Langue Francaise
• Systematic and Applied Acarology Society

Regional

• Acarology Society of America
• Acarological Society of Iran
• Acarological Society of Japan
• African Acarology Association
• Egyptian Society of Acarology
• European Association of Acarologists

Notable acarologists

• Mercedes Delfinado
• Natalia Aleksandrovna Filippova
• Harry Hoogstraal
• James Allen McMurtry
• Pat Nuttall
• Maria V. Pospelova-Shtrom
• Ronald Vernon Southcott
• Jane Brotherton Walker
• Aleksei Zachvatkin

Journals

The leading scientific journals for acarology include:

• Acarologia
• Acarines
• Experimental and Applied Acarology
• International Journal of Acarology
• Systematic & Applied Acarology
• Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
• Persian Journal of Acarology

See also

• Parasitology
• List of words ending in ology

Further reading

• Experimental and Applied Acarology, (electronic), (paper), Springer
• Book: E. Baker . 1952 . An Introduction to Acarology . New York: The MacMillan Company.
• Book: Gerald W. Krantz & D. E. Walter . 2009 . A Manual of Acarology . 3rd . Texas Tech University Press . 978-0-89672-620-8.

Notes and References

1. Book: D. E. Walter & H. C. Proctor . 1999 . Mites: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour . University of NSW Press, Sydney and CABI, Wallingford . 978-0-86840-529-2.
2. 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2009.00546.x. A Manual of Acarology. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 48. 2. 194–195. 2010. Alberti. Gerd. free.