beetle mite

English edit

Noun edit

beetle mite (plural beetle mites)

Any of many species of mites of the order Oribatida or superfamily Oribatoidea, parasitic on beetles.

Translations edit

mite of the order Oribatida

Finnish: kuoripunkki

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “beetle mite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)