title: Feather mite
text: # Feather mite
  
  Feather mites are the members of diverse mite superfamilies:
  
  * superorder Acariformes
     * Psoroptidia
        * Analgoidea
        * Freyanoidea
        * Pterolichoidea
  * superorder Parasitiformes
     * Dermanyssoidea
  
  They are ectoparasites on birds, hence the common name.
  
  