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       2025-05-07T18:49:13Z
       
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       New on Entomology Today: What scientists know as "mites" is almost certainly an artificial taxonomic group, according to recent phylogenetic analyses. For more than a century, the view of mites as a single lineage centered on them having a highly modified mouthpart region, but advanced microscopic techniques now reveal that many species of mites lack a key fusion of mouthparts that was the foundation for their classification. #entomology #mites https://entomologytoday.org/2025/05/07/mites-made-up-taxon-analysis-debunks-classification-acari/