Harpyrhynchiasis B88.-

Rare parasitic disease caused by the colonization of the skin with feather mites (family Harpyrhynchidae; currently about 2000 species of feather mites are known). Bellows mites parasitize in the bellows of birds (Schöne R et al. 2005). They are classified together with the feather coil mites (family Syringophilidae) in the superfamily Cheyletoidea.

In numerous bird species, characteristic yellow thin-walled skin cysts with a diameter of 0.1 or 2.0 cm filled with crumbly material and filled with Harpyrhynchus mites can be found under the wings.

Humans are the false host of this mite species. However, in rare cases, in immunologically disturbed people, the mite can cause non-purulent papules due to parasitic bellows mites.

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