ciron

Japanese: ciron
ciron


[form]
They are small, with body lengths of 0.2mm to 2cm, and most are 0.5 to 1mm. Incidentally, in 17th-century France, the ciron mite that infests cheese was considered to be the smallest known mite, as used by La Fontaine and Pascal. Lice and fleas are insects, but mites are a completely different animal from insects, with the head, thorax, and abdomen fused together, no antennae, compound eyes, or wings, and four pairs of walking legs.

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Japanese:


[形態]
 体長0.2mm~2cm,多くは0.5~1mmと小さい。なお,17世紀ころのフランスではラ・フォンテーヌや,パスカルにその用例があるように,チーズなどにつくコナダニcironは,知りうるかぎりのもっとも微細なものと考えられていた。シラミやノミは昆虫であるが,ダニは昆虫とはまったく別の動物で,頭,胸,腹が融合して一体となり,触角も複眼も翅もなく,歩脚は4対ある。…

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