acarologistn.

1879 Hardwicke's Sci.-Gossip 1 39 The older writers considered that many species were parasitic in all stages, but the researches of modern French acarologists make it probable that they are only parasitic in the larval stage.

1890 Proc. Zool. Soc. 416 Almost all the members of the genus [sc. Damæus] have a..globular abdomen, or else one which is discoidal, the latter being considered a separate genus by some Acarologists.

1902 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 9 311 The sense in which acarologists use the genus Oribata.

1964 D. G. Cooney & R. Emerson Thermophilic Fungi i. 6 To the algologist a thermophile may have a maximum between 60° and 80°C..to the bacteriologist..55° to 80°C, and the acarologist 35° to 45°C.

2001 Nat. New Eng. May 10/1 Acarologists, scientists who study mites, have named 45,000 species, and they estimate that this number is a small fraction of the species that actually exist.