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===Hosts===
===Hosts===
Sheep, cattle, goats, horses, rabbits, and camelids.
Sheep, cattle, goats, horses, rabbits, and camelids.
===Life Cycle===
===Life Cycle===
The eggs are relatively large, and within around 2 days transform into a hexapod larva. The larvae then moult into a protonymph , which then subsequently moults into a tritonymph. Finally the tritonymph moults to become a mature adult.
Each stage takes around 2 days to complete. The total duration from egg to adult, takes around 10 days, but this figure can longer.
Transmission is generally from direct contact with infected animals, but indirect transmission mau also occur.
[[Image:Psoroptes cuniculi.jpg|150px|thumb|right|'''Psoroptes cuniculi (Copyright Joel Mills, Wikimedia Commons) ''']]
[[Image:Psoroptes cuniculi.jpg|150px|thumb|right|'''Psoroptes cuniculi (Copyright Joel Mills, Wikimedia Commons) ''']]
===Identification===
===Identification===
The adault ''Psoroptes'' are around 0.75mm in length and oval in shape.
They have three-jointed pedicles, each with suckers on the ends; also known as pulvilli.
The legs of adult females are all approximately the same length. However, in the males the fourth pair of legs is significantly shorter than the rest. The males also tend to be smaller then the females.
The males may also be identified via copulatory suckers and paired posterior lobes.
The males attach to deutonymphs (second moult after larval stage) in a process called '''copula'''. The males then remain in copula until the females moult for the final time. Copulation then occurs
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