Morphology
Adult scabies mites are spherical, eyeless mites with four pairs of legs. They are recognizable by their oval, ventrally flattened and dorsally convex tortoise-like body and multiple cuticular spines. Females are 0.3–0.45 millimetre (0.012–0.018 in) long and 0.25–0.35 millimetre (0.0098–0.014 in) wide, and males are just over half that size.
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