The PEDIGREE of
Superorder Parasitiformes (Mites & Ticks)

     (the Holothyrida feed off dead arthropods)

 "Child(ren)":       Order Ixodida (Ticks)   ;   Order Mesostigmata (Free-living mites & kin)   ;   Holothyrida (corpse-feeding mites)
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/-- Subkingdom of Metazoa   +====> [ 70]
/-- Superbranch Eumetazoa
/-- Superphylum Planulozoa
/-- Clade of Bilateria and Placozoa
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- Branch Bilateria
/-- Infrakingdom (Grade) of Coelomates
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- Subgrade of Protostomia
/   / or: Clade Nephrozoa
/-- Superphylum Ecdysozoa (Arthropods, Roundworms, etc.)
/-- Supraphylum Panarthropoda
/-- Phylum Arthropoda
/-- Subphylum Arachnomorpha
/-- Infraphylum Chelicerata (Arachnids & Horseshoe Crabs)
/-- Class Arachnida (Spiders & Scorpions)
/-- Subclass Acarina (Mites & Ticks)
/-- Clade of Parasitiformes & Opilioacariformes
/  
- Superorder Parasitiformes (Mites & Ticks)
 


  ``3-Great Grandchildren:''       Deer tick   ;   Family Laelapidae (Bee predator Mites, etc.)
 
  ``7-Great Grandchild:''       Virus-Infected Parasitic Mite
 

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