Answer to Case 568

Answer toParasite Case of the Week 568: Pseudoscorpion or false scorporion, not a human parasite.This fun little arthropod is occasionally submitted to the clinical laboratory for identification, and may be mistaken as a true scorpion. While both scorpions and pseudoscorpions are arachnids, pseudoscorpions are very small (1 cm or less in length) andlack a tail with a stinger. As sylvie g and Santiago note, pseudoscorpions can occasionally be found in the house, but they don ' t bite or sting humans, and instead feed on other small arthropods such as booklice.Thanks again to Old One and his son for the donation of the cool animated illustration.
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