Mite species.
Ink on paper.
Queensland Museum. 2007-2009.

A long-running series of hundreds of drawings to depict mite specimens from Australia and New Zealand. Many were new species.
Specimens were drawn from the microscope using a camera lucida.
​Read more about the process of illustrating this mites...read more 

​Images: All images by Michelle Baker, credited to the Queensland Museum.

Published in:

Constantine RA & Seeman OD. 2014. Three new species of Eutarsopolipus (Acari: Podapolipidae) from Australian carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Journal of Systematic and Applied Acarology 19 (1), 87-109.  

Beard JJ, Seeman OD & Bauchan GR. 2014. Tenuipalpidae (Acari: Trombidiformes) from Casuarinaceae (Fagales). Zootaxa 3778 (1), 001–157. 

Seeman OD & Baker MR. 2013. A new genus and species of Discozerconidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in New Zealand. Zootaxa 3750 (2), 130-142.

Seeman OD. 2012. Larva and deutonymph of Promegistus armstrongi Womersley (Acari: Mesostigmata: Trigynaspida: Promegistidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum (Nature) 56 (1), 255 - 269.

Seeman OD. 2012. A new genus of Blattisociidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseioidea) from Australian burrowing carabid beetles. International Journal of Acarology 38 (6), 533 - 544.

Shaw M and Seeman O. 2009. Two new species of Myrmozercon (Acari: Laelapidae) from Australian ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2025, 43‐55.

Baker MR & Seeman O. 2008. Mites and millipedes: a new Neomegistus (Acari: Mesostigmata: Paramegistidae) from Australia. Journal of Systematic and Applied Acarology 13 (3&4), 204‐213.