Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Abteilung Zoologische Sammlungen/Chelicerata, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115, Berlin, Germany.
Exp Appl Acarol. 2009 Dec;49(4):317-27. doi: 10.1007/s10493-009-9295-6. Epub 2009 Aug 21.
Histiostoma polypori (Histiostomatidae, Astigmata) is associated with the earwig Forficula auricularia, which has an interesting brood behavior: the adult earwig female cares for her eggs and stays with the N2 and N3 nymphs in the nest. Deutonymphs of H. polypori only leave the female earwig to develop on dead earwig N2 and N3 nymphs. The newly molted deutonymphs attach to live earwig N3 nymphs. The earwig's cleaning behavior displaces the deutonymphs to the exuvial suture, around the area between cephalon and prothorax. From there, deutonymphs switch from one earwig stage to the following, always occupying that region. Histiostoma polypori obviously has a necromenic life style, that is, it ascends a carrier organism and develops on the carrier's cadavers. Necromeny within the Histiostomatidae presumably derived at least twice convergently from phoretic transport.
多形革螨（Histiostomatidae，Astigmata）与螽斯蜚蠊 Forficula auricularia 有关，后者具有有趣的育幼行为：成年螽斯雌性会照顾她的卵，并与巢中的 N2 和 N3 若虫呆在一起。多形革螨的若虫 N2 和 N3 只离开雌性螽斯在死螽斯 N2 和 N3 若虫上发育。刚蜕皮的若虫附着在活的螽斯 N3 若虫上。螽斯的清洁行为将若虫驱赶到蜕皮缝线处，在头胸部和前胸之间的区域。从那里，若虫从一个螽斯阶段切换到下一个阶段，始终占据那个区域。多形革螨显然有一种尸食性的生活方式，即在载体生物上爬上并在载体的尸体上发育。Histiostomatidae 中的尸食性至少有两次从寄生产生了趋同进化。
