“…Dermanyssus (D.) gallinae (Family: Dermanyssidae; Order: Mesostigmata, Subclass: Acari; Class: Arachnida) commonly known as red mite and roost mite of poultry (Sparagano et al, 2014;Duff et al, 2020;Pihkala and Sato, 2020;Sparagano and Jaffery, 2020;Xiong et al, 2020;Bartley et al, 2021). D. gallinae is a nocturnal parasite of poultry and wild birds (Bhowmick et al, 2020;Cocciolo et al, 2020;Lima-Barbero et al, 2020;Sparagano, 2020). The life cycle stages of D. gallinae consist of egg, larvae, protonymph, deutonymph, and adult.…”