Poecilochirus

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
subclassis = Acari
superordo = Parasitiformes
ordo = Mesostigmata
subordo = Parasitina
superfamilia = Parasitoidea
familia = Parasitidae
genus = "Poecilochirus"
genus_authority = G. & R. Canestrini, 1882cite web |url=http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=244873 |title=Poecilochirus |accessdate=2008-07-21 |date=2007-04-19 |format= |work=Fauna Europaea |publisher= European Commission |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]
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"Poecilochirus" is a genus of mites in the family Parasitidae. They feed on fly eggs and larva. At least 14 species of the genus are carried from one food source to another by beetles of multiple genuses in the family Silphidae with whom they often have a symbiotic relationship in protecting the beetle's larva or its food supply from fly larva. [cite web |url=http://www.northern.edu/natsource/ENDANG1/Buryin1.htm |title=American Burying Beetle |accessdate=2008-07-21 |last=Backlund |first=Doug |authorlink= |year=1994 |work= |publisher=South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks, Division of Wildlife |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] [cite web |url=http://www.deathonline.net/decomposition/corpse_fauna/mites.htm |title=Decomposition: Mites |accessdate=2008-07-21 |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2003 |month= |format= |work= |publisher=Australian Museum |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]

Species in the genus include::"P. austroasiaticus":"P. carabi":"P. davydovae":"P. macgillavryi":"P. necrophori":"P. subterraneus"

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