Indoor dermatitis due to Aeroglyphus robustus

What is it about?

Aeroglyphus robustus is an astigmatid mite describedinitially by Banks in 1906 and called Glycyphagus robustus. In1941 Zachvatkin described and called the subfamily Aeroglyphinae and the genus Aeroglyphus. He considered this mite of Canadian origin to be the same as the European species A. peregrinans (Berlese, 1892), and he upgraded the subfamily Aeroglyphinae to family Aeroglyphidae. It was only in 1959 that Cooreman described A. robustus in detail, distinguishing it morphologically from A. peregrinans. At present, in the Italian acarofauna, A. robustus is not present in the family Aeroglyphidmae, and its pathogenic role in humans has never been described before. The taxonomy of A. robustus is order Astigmata, subor-der Acaridia, superfamily Glycyphagoidea, family Aeroglyphidae.

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Why is it important?

This report is the first case of human dermatitis caused by A. robustus and the first evidence of this mite in Italy, althoughit is possible that dermatitis due to this mite may go undiagnosed or be ascribed to other mites.