Mite
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Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods).
Mites are not a defined taxon, but the name is used for members of several groups of the class Arachnida. Mites span two large orders of arachnids, the Acariformes and the Parasitiformes, which were historically grouped together in the subclass Acari, but genetic evidence suggests are not closely related. The Parasitiformes include ticks, which are sometimes semantically distinguished from mites.
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