Family Dermanyssidae Kolenati, 1859

Dermanyssus Dugès, 1834

• Dermanyssus gallinae (de Geer, 1878)

• Original name: Acarus gallinae de Geer, 1878 .

• In: Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire des insects. Grefing & Hesselberg, Stockholm 7: 111.

Irish Records: A ubiquitous parasite of poultry and wild birds and very common in Ireland, often seen at bird post mortems ad in submitted specimens (Head of Regional Veterinary Laboratories pers. comm.).

Counties: Seems ubiquitous.