chigger

Noun
  1. Small tropical flea;
    The fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans (synset 102190206)
    is a type of: flea - any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap
    belongs to: genus tunga, tunga - a genus of Siphonaptera
    same as: chigoe, chigoe flea, tunga penetrans
  2. Larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation (synset 101783712)
    is a type of: trombiculid - mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates
    belongs to: genus trombicula, trombicula - type genus of the family Trombiculidae
    same as: harvest mite, jigger, redbug

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