The mites are the tiniest of the arachnids.
For that matter, they are among the tiniest of all the animals.
If you look at a mite under magnification, you will see that, generally speaking, its body consists of two discernible parts:
a small head-like structure, which bears the mouthparts and the feeler-like pedipalps, and the main part of the body, which is not segmented and in adults bears four pairs of legs.
The mites are easily recognized because they are the only arachnids in which the mouthparts and legs are on separate parts of the body.
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