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→''Knemidocoptes''
====''Knemidocoptes''====
====''Knemidocoptes''====
*Only genus of burrowing mites which occur on avian species
*Life cycle similar to ''Sarcoptes spp.''
*Diagnosis based on clinical signs and discovery of mites
*Repeat treatments with [[Ectoparasiticides|acaricides]] needed
**Few products licensed for use in poultry
'''Recognition'''
*Small, round mite
*Short legs
*U-shaped chitinous bar behind head
*Terminal anus
*'''K. mutans'''
*'''K. mutans'''
**Scaly leg in poultry
**Scaly leg in poultry
**Mites burrow beneath leg scales causing them to loosen and rise
**Ragged appearance to legs and feet
**Distorted claws and feet
**Infected birds are usually lame
*''K. gallinae''
**Depluming itch in poultry
**Burrow into feather shafts
**Intense pain and pruritis
**Birds pull out body feathers
*'''K. pilae'''
*'''K. pilae'''
**Scaly leg in psittacines
**Scaly face and beak in psittacines
**Mites attack bare or lightly feather areas of the face, beak, cere and body
**Scaliness at the base of the beak is the first sign which then spreads
**Little pruritis
===''Trixacarus''===
===''Trixacarus''===