Return to Holdings PageAcari.
The mite and tick collection includes over 6300 slide-mounted
specimens and 8000 vials. A general collection of Acari was
initiated only in 1970, in connection with a course in systematic
acarology previously taught by G.C. Eickwort, and its use as a
systematic resource is quite recent. Slide-mounted materials are
identified to family or, in the case of economically important taxa,
to genus or species. All major families and most minor families
are represented. Representation is strongest from New York. The
collection is particularly strong in vertebrate and arthropod
parasites. Of more significance are the special collections that
have been deposited in association with research by faculty and
students at Cornell. These include Astigmata collected from
arthropods and vertebrates by B.M. O Connor (on loan); mites
associated with bees, by G.C. Eickwort; Hydrachnellae, by B. Redmond,
C. Lanciani, and G. Mullens; Tetranychidae, by R.M. Reeves; and
chiggers, by J.M. Brennan. The collection includes over 40 secondary
types (Search Types).